alt Hacker NewsPlease note that we had two independent working low code systems, back in the 1990s.
Back then, a domain expert could fire up either Delphi or Visual Basic 6, and build a program that was useful for them. If they needed more performance, they would hire a professional programmer who used their work as a specification, and sanded off the rough edges.
These days, Lazarus is the open source follow on to Delphi. It'll work almost anywhere. I've run it on a Raspberry Pi Zero W! The only downside is the horrible documentation.
Microsoft went off the rails with their push towards .NET, sadly.
It has been a very long time since I have written any Delphi, but I prefer dotnet these days. The only (very real) problem is trying to predict what the best long term UI option is for native apps.