Back in the day, there were a lot of great widgets for Delphi and a lot of small companies selling commercial widgets. That ecosystem made Delphi (and to some e

Back in the day, there were a lot of great widgets for Delphi and a lot of small companies selling commercial widgets. That ecosystem made Delphi (and to some extent, C++ Builder), extremely popular. Most of those vendors moves to .NET (usually C#) over the years, and eventually, to the web. For comparison, Qt, which is awesome, has never had such an ecosystem.