I was looking for a Desktop Application Programming Language with one of the biggest constraint: - “I need to output as native executable”.

I explored multiple options:

1. Java is not a very good option for desktop programming, but still you can use it. But Java to Exe is a problem. Only GCJ and Excelsior-Jet provides this.
2. .Net platform does not support native compilation. Only very few expensive tools are available which can do the job.
3. Python is not an option for native compilation. Right?
4. VB6 is the option I am left with.

From the above list, if I am correct, VB6 is the only and probably the best option I have. But VB6 itself has issues like:

• It is no more under development since
• There are questions on support of VB6 IDE with Vista

Thus my questions are:

1. From the list of programming language options, do you want to add any more?
2. If VB6 is good/best option, looking at its development status, would you suggest using VB6 in this era?