Yeah, the VCL was the first UI framework I used. With regards to multiple inheritance, this was the C++ Builder criticism, not mine. That and the extra macros

Yeah, the VCL was the first UI framework I used. With regards to multiple inheritance, this was the C++ Builder criticism, not mine. That and the extra macros needed to support the VCL. I was a Delphi guy, so I appreciated that the Object Pascal version of using the VCL was cleaner to use than the C++ interface. We no longer use C++ for UI. Any native code is wrapped up in to P/Invokes. I think all of our MFC apps are EOL now. Everything is WPF or Maui for cross platform.