Recommend me a language

I used VB 6 a while ago before I started learning some real languages. However, I still can't get over how much easier it was to make GUI applications in VB, despite how much the language itself sucked. Window toolkits for other languages are horrible to use and rarely come with a real visual editor - Tk sucks ass, Swing sucks ass, win32 API in C is either a pain in the ass or I can't figure out a good way to do it...

I haven't tried MFC or any .NET shit yet. How the hell do people write real Windows apps? Should I try something else?

>>73
More like you watch every stupid management sucker follow everything you say turning their project into an underperforming, overbudget, late-running piece of shit while you flail around making excuses like "OO, platform independence, best practices and other stupid shit".

The majority of consultants are full of shit. The majority of those also happen to promote Java. I propose an object type specified to distinctly cater for them; this type will be called "Jackass".

A decent technical consultant will understand the problem first, then can and will explain the practical benefits, cavaets and implications of doing something without having to resort to marketing handwaving like best practice, vendor independence, MVC, more OO and other bullshit. Pro-Java consultants love to ignore the problem and just start shitting their bullshit around with no clue what their talking about. Lines like (true story), "JBoss isn't an appserver, just EJB, you still need <our service here>" Hey, dipshit! This JBoss Application Server thing sitting in front of us must be just our imagination then!

C++ is strongly typed.

>>74
signed!