Such a shame. Borland couldn't compete with MS (partly due to some dirty tricks MS used) and they've been on a downward course for a long time - they sold their

Such a shame. Borland couldn't compete with MS (partly due to some dirty tricks MS used) and they've been on a downward course for a long time - they sold their developer tools divison a long time ago. C++ Builder was the C++ version of Delphi, a major productivity booster for Windows development. I remember using version 1.0 - it was truly amazing how fast one could develop UI applications with it. I would say it was about as easy as using Xcode's interface builder, when the competition was basically coding MFC classes (or WinAPI!) by hand. It had database bindings and one could link controls with data sources in a WYSIWYG interface in the time it took to put a button on the screen with MFC. However, it was expensive and the compiler was not as good as MS's. I never had the chance to use it profesionally, everyone was using Visual C++. As the years passed I forgot about Borland... Luckily the legacy of rapid application development lives on in Qt: it's open-source, cross-platform, with a strong community and uses modern C++ tooling.