Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer
by kerng on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:35PM
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VB 6 is probably not a good example.
Even nowadays many languages don't have features that VB6 offered incl. WYSIWYG. Debugging capabilities of modern languages/environments are still often not even close to what VB6 offered 20+ years ago.
C# certainly is outstanding but I think Microsoft made a gigantic mistake by killing VB6 the way they did.
Microsoft's prevented a large amount of people to write applications, since a new ecosystem like C# or VB.net was significantly more difficult to learn and understand.
In retrospect Python or Node probably took VB6's place, so Microsoft just lost out on a huge market there. Bad management decision.
Even nowadays many languages don't have features that VB6 offered incl. WYSIWYG. Debugging capabilities of modern languages/environments are still often not even close to what VB6 offered 20+ years ago.
C# certainly is outstanding but I think Microsoft made a gigantic mistake by killing VB6 the way they did.
Microsoft's prevented a large amount of people to write applications, since a new ecosystem like C# or VB.net was significantly more difficult to learn and understand.
In retrospect Python or Node probably took VB6's place, so Microsoft just lost out on a huge market there. Bad management decision.