> Visual Basic was the pinnacle of graphics programming

I am still shocked how no tool since has managed to come even close to VB. You could easily develop a moderately complex GUI application that felt snappy in an afternoon. C# with WinForms is the second closest to that. All other iterations since have not been designed with individual developers in mind, sadly.

A powerful developing alternative to this paradigm could be what I’m calling speech/voice driven development (SDD or VDD). It takes some pain of typing so much away - makes interactions with AI feel a bit more natural. Like talking to a colleague. But for it to really work well, AI models will need to become even faster.

Delphi was superior to VB even back in the day, and is still around, as is Lazarus. C# WinForms is actually closest to that, not to VB - and is also still around.

I find Qt Creator to be quite comparable to the experience I remember with e.g. VB6. Have you tried it?

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