I had a look at this again a few months back - Lazarus is where I got to also - but it felt a bit of an underwhelming/complicated solution esp. if you used Delp

I had a look at this again a few months back - Lazarus is where I got to also - but it felt a bit of an underwhelming/complicated solution esp. if you used Delphi or even VB 20 years ago more and more people are talking about it again now - even though most of the current tooling hotness is focused on mobile maybe something will come out of the .NET Core projects now it's all open source - it feels like that has most potential right now there is a huge gap in the enterprise software market for a simple cross-platform app framework with intuitive ways to interface to SQL and web APIs - suitable for accounts juniors to build small data apps (instead of bending Excel macros round the problem) but also suitable to build high-function business apps (instead of pretty but barely usable web apps every business I know has on life-support which nobody dare touch)