I don't know if you've looked at modern delphi, but it's not that different from IntelliJ. It seems amazing that delphi 1 was perfectly usable on a 640 x 480 sc

I don't know if you've looked at modern delphi, but it's not that different from IntelliJ. It seems amazing that delphi 1 was perfectly usable on a 640 x 480 screen, showing a complete IDE with a GUI designer, code editor, panel, menu and toolbar. Delphi 1: https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/1x-1a684e073c904874f4b8a2965a3968c8-Delphi%201.0%20-%20Edit.png https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/1x-1a684e073c9048... Delphi 10: http://uimg.in/images/2017/01/05/e4vC6sN.png http://uimg.in/images/2017/01/05/e4vC6sN.png When I break apart the UI differences it's obvious delphi's UI had to grow to accommodate the growing complexity of the projects built with it, and that delphi 1 could get away with being simple because it wasn't expected to do all that much. Still, when I look at that delphi 1 screenshot all I can remember was how fun it was to program in it.