It is even behind rails g scaffold when it comes to RAD.
Remember how you could just "add" a database connection to your project, plop a data source on a form, then a datagrid or a bunch of text/check/comboboxes and the standard control, wire it all up in a couple clicks, and things just magically worked?
That was a lovely time to work on any kind of line-of-business app.
You can do these in both Delphi and Lazarus, except with a much better GUI framework (comparing GUI only here, not everything you'd get with .NET). If anything having worked with Windows Forms for a while i think it was abandoned before it reached even what you could do in the midlate 90s in Delphi.
You would be even more impressed with Delphi, because after connecting your data source, your form fills with data at design-time. Lazarus and Typhon does the same.
And if I remember correctly, it could also do the "fill the form with data" trick.
Layouts >> fixed size window
By now C# is a much more powerful language, though.
