I used VB5 or VB6 for more than a decade, and HyperCard before that. The first thing I did when I got an academic job was to buy VB5 at a discount. I loved the

I used VB5 or VB6 for more than a decade, and HyperCard before that. The first thing I did when I got an academic job was to buy VB5 at a discount. I loved the simplicity of drawing the GUI and then adding functionality to it. Every other tool involved additional complexity that didn't seem to add value, though I didn't explore every possible alternative. When I started using Python, I missed being able to draw my GUI with the ease of VB, but not for very long. I discovered that building a GUI with Tkinter was nearly as easy, except for the part about laying it out visually. But I also read enough critiques of GUI's, to know that my own layouts were actually quite mediocre, and that a simple top-down layout using Tkinter's defaults was usually no worse. So, VB certainly got me to a certain point, for which I'm grateful, but I no longer feel a desire to go back there.