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"no matter what" is pushing it. It was very common for Delphi programs to use stuff that required external DLLs.
Only if you wanted to include database options.
I think one dude spread the myth of no DLLs in the Twitter thread, lots of people repeated it, and since Delphi 6/7 is not around anymore and it's hard to check, they got away with a slight historical innacuracy.
I mean...at least for GTK on Linux, you still can? It won't be 10 seconds (probably closer to 30-40 seconds) since you have to go through a couple of prompts to name it, decide a license, etc., but with: https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/ You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.
but then GTK has issues with some DEs supposedly
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I saw this comment a while ago, and even now, I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
If you want to make a native GUI app work across desktop Linux users, it's not this simple
My point is this is still clearly possible for native GUI apps.