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I pretty much started programming in Delphi (which was very popular in this part of the world, and still is to some extent).

After using VCL for a year or two, I started branching to other, much more popular programming environments, and was shocked about how bad they were for GUI development. Why would anyone put themselves through the pain of writing interfaces manually using programming languages not designed for it (like C) when you could design everything in a convenient GUI builder?

It's sad they decided to focus on the "enterprise" market and buried themselves in the long term. Writing GUI stuff in Delphi was (probably is) a pleasure: they compiled quickly, looked native, and ran fast on my shitty hardware.