I strongly agree with you... if you were to experience Windows 2000 Server with either Visual Basic 6, or Borland Delphi, on modern hardware, you'd be amazed.

I strongly agree with you... if you were to experience Windows 2000 Server with either Visual Basic 6, or Borland Delphi, on modern hardware, you'd be amazed. Both had context sensitive help, which included example code. Both compiled to an executable that you could easily distribute, and would reliable run in most places. Now we try to project a user interface through the internet, randomly chosen web browsers with ad-blockers and all sorts of add-ons, on screens from 8K or more, down to cell phones. Help largely consists of the names and descriptions of parameters of the various libraries, and there are no working examples. The frameworks get replaced at breakneck speed, and nothing is compiled and thus stable. Having source code is great for development, but over time all of the dependencies break the projects that use them.