[10098]

I was just thinking about this yesterday. Remember how easy it was to build a working UI in Delphi? Throw some controls on the form with a few clicks, maybe write some code, and it just worked. By comparison, integrating various javascript widgets into existing applications still remains such a pain, you'd think we've receded into the stone age of application development.

[Joeri]

You don't have to reminisce about delphi as if it is long gone. Delphi still exists, and it's still being actively developed. They now have a set of opengl-powered ui controls called firemonkey so you can use the same components and code to build native apps with hardware-accelerated ui for windows, mac and ios, with android support right around the corner.

It is a pity that the perception of delphi is that it is yesteryear's technology, because in my opinion it is still the absolute best way to build windows native apps, better than microsoft's own tools, and technologically they are really onto something with firemonkey on top of their data binding layer (which does two-way data binding in a more powerful way than any of the web frameworks).

See this example of building an app in delphi xe4: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/Tutorial:_Us...

Note that i'm still doing web development though, because the era of the desktop is fading for the sort of software i'm making. I'm just aware that as good as frameworks like angular and ember are, they have a way still to go.