Delphi is okay because you can static link but the exe's are still quite big as are BCB.

I prefer BASIC syntax which is why I went to powerbasic, it's not really for everyone though as the GUI does take more work.

Any language with pointers thought lets you really speed the app up quite a bit where is where VB fails

I'm just glad I got rid of my BASIC blues

hmmmm linux support would be nice though, I'm not too good with linux and I'd be lost without the win32 API.

What does linux use for system calls?