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Ever try Delphi.. it has all the advantages you mention and it's portable to Linux...

One of my former coworkers was big into Delphi, so I've only seen it as he worked on it ... The native part of our system at work was written in it when he was there actually. It looked very good (in fact, didn't the guy who designed Delphi design C# also?). The only problem I had with it is that it's harder to find Delphi programmers than the alternatives, so later revs of that part of the system ended up being redone in C++. But overall I was impressed with Delphi.