And don’t forget Free Pascal and Lazarus. I opened it up the other day on a whim and made a hello world app.

Everything about the thing felt 1990s... in the best way. The IDE was clearly designed not for initial discovery by a novice, but for someone who they ultimately expect to become proficient and thus able to capitalize on the expert-friendly UI.

The reasulting binary felt like the 1990s too: A single small executable with instant load times :-)

The sick thing it's a smaller download to write your app in Turbo Pascal and distribute a virtual machine running DOS than an electron app.