Its not HTML/CSS/JS that killed the RAD tools from the 90s/00s - it is security, multi-user and networking. I remember how quickly you can put together apps an

Its not HTML/CSS/JS that killed the RAD tools from the 90s/00s - it is security, multi-user and networking. I remember how quickly you can put together apps and forms using VB6 + visual designer. But security/permissions were mostly based on your Windows account user. I remember an ERP software that hardcoded the MySQL connection string with a god-mode user+password in a config file and relied on Windows permissions that only the ERP software itself (written in Delphi) could open it. User permissions were then encoded in that DB. Basically, one disassembly of the machine and extracting the config file from the harddrive would have allowed you full access to the db. Today, we use service layers (REST & Co.) to ensure permissions and access - something that would be equally complex when using VB/Lazarus today.