Because lazarus (and its commercial alternative Delphi) are excellent tools and probably the best way to actually develop GUI applications right now (see the re

Because lazarus (and its commercial alternative Delphi) are excellent tools and probably the best way to actually develop GUI applications right now (see the related discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12350834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12350834 and especiall the great comment from TimJYoung). There was a reason that Visual Basic was so popular -- and that was not because BASIC was a great language. Instead it had a great GUI editor and you could very quickly create your apps by dragging and dropping the components and adding code for the actions! For me, Lazarus is the VB of today.