I've written both Tcl/Tk code and Lazarus and i think the latter is much faster to make things: not only you have a visual WYSIAWYG[0] editor but also a very rich framework.
[0] A for Almost as technically the program can compile with different GUI backends (Win32, Gtk, Qt, etc) :-P
[0] A for Almost as technically the program can compile with different GUI backends (Win32, Gtk, Qt, etc) :-P