Toivo Annus
The original internal alpha version of UI was built in QT and we hoped to do few platforms at same take. However the result looked like crap, our progress seemed slow and we ditched the QT about 2 months before public beta release.
Delphi was chosen because our first senior UI developer was very skilled at Delphi (besides dozen other languages-environments) and we saw D as most productive, fastest, efficient way to build our app given our team/lead developer skills and also getting very good UX on MSWin platform.
For linux the QT remained and on OSX it has been Cocoa from the start. The functional core components which did the heavy lifting under the UI have always been the same C/C++ as Ahti pointed out.
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