Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

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.