> I miss Delphi where I drop a control on the canvas and it feels like that control as situated in a desktop app... At the risk of sounding like yet another cr

> I miss Delphi where I drop a control on the canvas and it feels like that control as situated in a desktop app... At the risk of sounding like yet another crusty old man here, I agree 100%. I cut my teeth on Delphi (among other things), and I took it for granted that whipping up an application with a decent looking and highly responsive GUI would always be that easy. (Because, why not?). I came back to programming after a 20 year hiatus, naively imagining that there would be something like Delphi for the web where you could design your UI visually, hook up some event handlers, and off you go. Couldn't have been more wrong. On the plus side, there are some things I never imagined being able to do back in those days, like use a good Smalltalk system and have it run blazingly fast on standard hardware. It's frustrating that some of the greatest ideas of the past (Lisp machines, Smalltalk machines), things that were so far ahead of their time and were unaffordable on the hardware of the day, are now so easily affordable, but hardly anyone knows they existed. Coming back and looking at what's available today, it feels like kludges piled upon kludges.