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Yes sure. Sorry, this is quite a stretch from the topic because Delphi hardly allows logic to be written visually in contrast to the other tools mentioned. But
by blablabla123 7y ago
Yes sure. Sorry, this is quite a stretch from the topic because Delphi hardly allows logic to be written visually in contrast to the other tools mentioned. But you can 'click' together your whole UI. It is very intuitive where to find the most important handlers (onClick for buttons, onSelect for list...), you double-click, a piece of code gets generated and your cursor lands within the generated stub code for that.
Also you have a good browser for objects. Actually one time I was playing with some Direct3D plugin, that was really easy to get started with and to move something around (in the 90s!).
Not knowing anything about maintainability or how to approach problems, this was really fun to work with. I think the Microsoft Visual Basic might resemble these things to some degree, but I never tried it. Also Object Pascal is a more powerful and concise language in comparison.
Oh and I didn't mention the fabulous documentation. They really did their homework, once you built the help search index you could search for each available library function. Really cool stuff actually. I've tried other IDEs like Borland C++ Builder, KDevelop and the QT Designer, NetBeans, Eclipse but they didn't even come close to that. After a friend strongly recommended me to work with editors I completely lost interest in IDEs actually. (Nowadays I'd use some React boilerplate to quickly assemble a UI, but that was quite some work and practice ;))