Porting VB apps to Python for Window / Linux use

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Stef Mientki:
> it's just Object Pascal , which is inferior to Python.

They are quite different languages, you can't compare them in a simple
way.
Delphi is statically typed, and compiles very quickly producing
"small" exes; "algorithmic" code can run a hundred times faster than
Python code. There are lot of people still that think that a
statically typed language is safer.
Delphi is kinda old, so today there are better languages than Delphi
(like D), but when Delphi 2-3 was out, there weren't many other
languages with IDEs at its level, especially for programs with a nice
GUIs plus interfaces with DBMSs. Today you can write programs with
FreePascal, that is free. Bashing other languages doesn't make Python
any better.

Bye,
bearophile