Well I used VB4-6 and Delphi 5-6 extensively, and my experience was Delphi was lightyears ahead of VB, and I say that as someone who was deeply familiar with bo

Well I used VB4-6 and Delphi 5-6 extensively, and my experience was Delphi was lightyears ahead of VB, and I say that as someone who was deeply familiar with both and made heavy use of Dan Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to the Win32 API. It sounds like you were maybe using it at a fairly surface level, for which VB was good because it was highly approachable sure, but the wheels fell off pretty quick when you had to push it. Delphi was beautiful because it made the easy stuff as easy as VB, but the hard stuff was still easy where in VB it was either impossible or required dropping down to Win32 APIs or calling other languages.