Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it.
Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).
From $960 + $399/year.
I think it's quite an accomplishment to survive in the modern world of free software development tools.
Delphi's great. You can rapidly create apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
I tried Lazarus recently, but I found the IDE to be slow.
Delphi is still the absolute fastest way to create win32 gui applications, and anybody who disagrees has never used it.
Lazarus is a pretty sweet solution on Linux (or Codetyphoon, if you want more out of the box components).