Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by hoistbypetard on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:58PM (#22573083)

I understand that nostalgia. You might enjoy playing with gambas: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

I think Xojo was known as "RealBASIC" in the late 90s/early 00s and was really in the same spirit (but more cross platform) as VB6.

HyperCard occupies the same spot for me that VB6 seems to occupy for you. Today for stuff I'd have used that for in the 90s, I just stand up a quick little web app and text or email a link.

That's in no small part because nearly all of my wife's computing is done on an iThing and not on a computer that she could readily download and run something on. Unless I want to throw my cute GUI in an app store, it needs to be web-based now.

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Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by pcdoodle on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:14AM (#22574703)

Xojo is amazing and there are tons of commercial plugins to do stuff Multiplatform. Yea its not free but I don't mind paying to make life easy.

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Re:Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic by hoistbypetard on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:18AM (#22575433)

Eh. VB6 was paid too. IIRC it used to be on the order of $600 to get the standalone version.

I downloaded Xojo and kicked the tires. It was absolutely cool to see that an environment like this lives on. It really does feel like a successor to VB6.

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