It's still alive because it's a passion project for the developer, he doesn't make a lot of money from it. Not because the tool declined in quality, but because nowadays efficient RAD is a very niche market and the licenses are still valid for the lifetime (again showing the passion to the product rather than optimizing income).
See this interview for some details: https://www.purebasic.fr/blog/?p=554
https://github.com/andlabs/libui
> Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports.
Missing a lot of desktop features and abandoned.
> wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
> FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without bloat ...
Not native, but small, dependable and cross-platform.
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/engine_details/develo...
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/usin...
Already a great experience with a structured compiled BASIC in 1991, and what made me look into other Borland languages.
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Software/borland_turbo_basi...
Nowadays it lives on as PowerBASIC.
I don't get the downplay of Delphi or C++ Builder, other that they aren't cool.
I doubt anyone in GenZ or below appreciates the effort put into making a native text field work consistently enough across platforms.
Thankfully they would never managed to run Electron.