JetBrains never did any rapid UI IDE like Delphi did. In fact, all their IDEs are in Swing, which is a mess. I'd totally love having CLion/PyCharm with Qt UI designer, but it's not going to happen.

The easiest time I had writing GUIs was when I used PyQT. I designed the UI in Qt Designer, loaded it in the python code, set the bindings and voila, it was working.

Btw Visual Basic continues to exist under Visual Basic.NET and if you stick to the basics you could learn to write C# GUI programs pretty quickly.

I agree writing GUIs by hand is very counter-productive.

They have a GUI designer for Swing.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/components-of-the-gui-de...

And integrate with Scene Builder for JavaFX.

JavaBeans are the Java version of VCL components.

Qt doesn't have a component eco-system like Java or even .NET enjoy.

The company behind Qt is still trying to sell QML to C++ developers, looking from the set of talks at Qt World Summit.

Outsystems and Jetbrains are these examples but on the other hand they are not; they are 'old'; they both exist since 2000 and at that time pushing into the market was a lot easier. I was more thinking of a company starting now, to which I'll check out Anvil.Works. There are more new companies working in the space, for sure, but they all miss the breadth that Borland had (they really had a lot of cash and developers on hand in those days).

But yes, Outsystems (I worked with them and their product quite a lot in the past) could be considered a Delphi. But still not modern; it's rather painful building apps/sites with it that people seem to want.

Jetbrains can be considered a Borland; I didn't think of that because I consider them more in the space of 'low level' programming tools (which, like you say, includes Delphi functionality, but a modern Delphi wouldn't be like the old Delphi; it would need a lot more innovation).

Anvil founder here!

The crucial difference between Outsystems(/Bubble/etc) and Anvil is that Outsystems tries to be a "no-code" environment, and we think that's a mistake (or at least, a different market).

Delphi and Visual Basic proved that writing code isn't the problem - code is the best way to tell a computer what to do. But writing code in five different languages to produce "Hello World" on the web...now that will slow you down.

(Count 'em: JS, HTML, CSS, backend eg Ruby/Python, SQL. We do everything in Python, which gets you going much faster. We just got back from PyCon UK, where among other things we got an 8-year-old building database-backed web apps in an afternoon. That's the sort of thing that used to happen with VB/Delphi.)

Thanks; that sounds very interesting. I will check it out tonight.

Was the talk recorded?