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Yes, Remobjects makes some nice tools. I absolutely adore their Oxygene language.

Feels weird to pay for this. I’m definitely spoiled by open source tooling.

With Moonbit and Wolfram Language, it feels like a renaissance of paid programming languages.

Wolfram ie Mathematica language predates VB1. Being commercial was the norm back then, and due to its academia widespread use has remained as such.

I have mixed feelings on this. On one hand it's great that people can write software without any financial friction, on the other I think developers should be rewarded for their work and I have little doubt the remote objects tools wouldn't exist without some kind of commercial reward.

Is there any documentation or tutorial on how to create a cross platform mobile app using any of their languages? The value proposition is great, but I can't find any actual code.

Have a look at their github repos. They have a fair bit of sample code sprinkled about.