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?

Sun especially asked that all Java compilers should NOT optimize anything at all.
Yet another retarded idea from Sun.

The JIT runs in the client every fucking time. Instead of spending 50 extra seconds in the development machine when compiling the release version, Sun makes users spend 1 extra second each, making the program look less responsive and lamer. If you have 1000 users that use your application 10000 times each, and that's not much really, this means Sun has wasted nearly four months of humanity's time.