> We've looked at moving to the web, but none of the front-end frameworks and tools we've seen so far get anywhere close to the ease of Delphi when it comes to making decent looking user interfaces with nontrivial functionality that doesn't silently break in random weird ways from one day to the next.
That has been my experience as well. For stamping out these CRUD apps with custom forms, nothing I have come across has been able to match the productivity and simplicity of Delphi and Visual Basic from the mid 1990's.
Same here. Younger developers often don't realize how unproductive they are with their JS based frameworks.
The one thing that I found that makes knocking out a simple web app fast is Streamlit in the Python ecosystem. Setting up Python is a bit of a nightmare but once out of the way, using Stramlit is quite nice. Although no visual designer is a bit of a let down.
That has been my experience as well. For stamping out these CRUD apps with custom forms, nothing I have come across has been able to match the productivity and simplicity of Delphi and Visual Basic from the mid 1990's.