At the moment they both have equal highs and lows. VB will always remain easier to use than Delphi. If you are looking at a RAD development environment that can challenge C++ speeds right now, I would suggest you learn PowerBasic 6 (w/RAD tools) or Borland Delphi 5 (which is based on PASCAL). But since your question was which is the better to "learn" between VB and Delphi I would say VB. Simply because the long term benifits for VB offers way more than Delphi ever will. Also Microsoft has more marketing power above Borland, 3.2 million developers program for VB. If you learn VB now I assure you VB 7 will reward you for that wait. But as I said, if you need speed now (for games etc) use the tools I mentioned.


PS VB 7 vs Delphi 6 will be Interesting, but I'm betting VB 7 by a long shot.