But every time I fire up that old VM, hear the click of the form designer placing a component, and press F9 to see the blue splash screen vanish into my own running application, I am reminded: we didn't have better tools back then. We had cleaner ones. Smaller. More honest.
Unlike Java or C#, which often required virtual machines or frameworks, Delphi 7 compiled to native machine code ( .exe ), resulting in fast, lightweight applications. Delphi 7 Personal 7.0