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On 2/10/2025 6:55 PM, John Ames wrote:

> It boggles my mind that all these years later, Visual Basic is *still*
> (putting aside design issues with the language itself and bugs/oddities
> in the runtime) one of the very few examples of a "GUI-builder" IDE/
> language that really does it *right.* 

Yes.  I've been promoting MS Access VB\A in here for years.


> FPC/Lazarus looks like another,
> but it's truly baffling to me just how clumsy and awkward the majority
> of the rest are.
You ought to see how clumsy and useless LibreOffice Base is.  And Kexi.


PyQt is a very solid GUI builder and language binding for Python.

Import various dbms libraries and connectors (sqlite3, oracledb, 
mariadb, psycopg2) and you've got a powerful front-end tool to the best 
databases.

And PyQt apps often run unchanged on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

But the licensing is silly and expensive for commercial apps.