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>>There's never been a tool like VFP.
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>No, that is not correct. I am sure there are others development platforms which I am not aware of but certainly WinDev does everything that VFP does, better than VFP in almost all cases, and then x100 more things ... easily. And, it is does them in a very similar way - so much so that I believe the roots of both products were all probably the same xBase model. Any claim VFP had to being unique has not been valid for very many years, certainly since the last 10+ releases of WinDev which would be back to version 10 or 12 or so ... at least.
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>Disclaimer: Not promoting WInDev - I have zero interest in that. Just stating the facts. I imagine there are other dev tools as well but cannot know them all of course.

I will reiterate my statement. There's never been a tool like VFP. A one-time less than 20 MB install and it provides all of the functionality VFP does on a target machine. The ability to run ad-hoc commands in even the run-time version. You won't find another tool like it anywhere. You can still buy it new today from Microsoft for less than the cost of WinDev (through MSDN). Windows-only however... but that doesn't seem to be too much of an issue. Every company I've ever done business with uses Windows for their office / user machines.

The free version, WinDev Express, is downloading presently. A 1.74GB download.