I worked a lot with Delphi ("Visual" was not in the name, BTW) and I predicted more than 15 years ago in a mail list that web programming was going to completel

I worked a lot with Delphi ("Visual" was not in the name, BTW) and I predicted more than 15 years ago in a mail list that web programming was going to completely eat most of the GUI programming. What happened? Short version: 1) Everybody talks about productivity but nobody really cares 2) "Some" people care a lot about the price of programming tools 3) Web architecture provides for free a handful of requirements that were increasingly being demanded and were difficult to fulfill with desktop programming tools.