[speeder]

The "Visual" series of IDEs used to exist. Also the "Builder" series from Borland.

It was the reason why Delphi (a kind of Visual Pascal Builder?) Was só stupidly popular. Same thing for Visual Basic.

I used to look down on then but now I realize they being gone is a bad thing.

[LeFantome]

Delphi still exists. So does Lazarus ( open source version ).

For BASIC, there is GAMBAS.

There is also OpenXava for Java.

The lack of popularity is not just because they do not exist.