Yep. Python has potential to support some environment like Visual Basic. But there is no such project, as far as I know. All GUI frameworks are more complex, and there is no nice drag & drop GUI editor build into an easy Python IDE. At least I don't know it. Maybe if you use PyCharm, select some framework, find the right PyCharm plugins for it, you would have sth similar, but still much more difficult to use, and also there is no prebuilt and ready to be used package for such thing.
I'm in the process of making something like VB6 (yazz.com), but which is using Javascript instead of Basic for scripting. I would say that if you look at retool, bubble and many other low code tools then you will see that they are doing the same
The problem is that the approach itself is kinda flawed. The moment you have to support high-DPI or translate the app to a different language (with text labels of different size), that whole trick of just WYSIWYG dragging and dropping widgets in a visual designer breaks down.
It isn't just the WYSIWYG element though, developing the UI elements in code is not that hard.
But imagine in Tkinter and Python, probably the least steps to get a basic UI, there is so much to manage.
In vb you double clicked a button in the designer and got a place to type code. All the stuff about event loops, and not blocking the thread was dealt with for you. In Python if you try the same thing the app freezes continuously. Then you want to do simple everyday things like a date picker, or progress bar, and find you need to implement it yourself????
Then having built your app in Tkinter and Python, you want to share it with some colleagues...so where is the 'compile button'?
It is easier to implement a machine learning model in Python than it is to make it into a standalone app with a file importer and a 'go' button!
The way translation is implemented today is horrifying.
Likewise for high-DPI. Why are they still using some linear scaling of icons instead of a super-resolution GAN and some caching?
Why can't an OS translate a single-language app on the fly using state-of-the-art translation neural nets and using visual attention to capture context? It's almost 2023 ffs, and people are still using some gettext nonsense?
The problem is that on some platforms, text doesn't quite scale linearly as you increase the point size. Techniques like subpixel antialiasing with pixel-snapping produce shapes that are more readable on low-res screens, but it also causes distortion to letter shapes, and with multiple letters, depending on the exact text and its location, it can add up to amounts significant enough to cause overflow.
It's a problem on any platform that wants more readable text on low resolution. The only platform I know of that chose precise text layout over contrast regardless of the resolution is macOS. On Windows, ClearType still behaves as I described above. On Linux, it depends FreeType settings, which you don't know in advance, so you have to assume that it will happen.
I don't really know Delphi/Lazurus well enough... but I suppose it is similar to the following... for VB there is Winforms and .NET, which as someone above pointed out is 'much more powerful', but somehow not what people want!
