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I loved VB6, and HyperCard before that. But when VB.NET came out, I switched to Python.

For a while, I missed the ability to draw interfaces, and tried some tools for building interfaces in Python, but they all added too much overhead and complexity compared to VB6.

Then I realized: My interfaces will never be beautiful. Whether I can draw a layout that's better than random, or worse, is a coin toss. Instead, I wrote a simple "wrapper" around commonly used Tkinter widgets, allowing me to build an interface in one line of code per widget, and my wrapper just lays them out in order from top to bottom. That, plus Matplotlib graphs, which are heavenly.

Today, nobody uses my programs because the interface is beautiful. They need a problem solved, and the top-down layout is usually as good if not better than anything I could dream up myself. It's actually liberating.