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Re:Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia by dvdhsu on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:23PM (#24840702)
Yes, certainly! "VB in the cloud" is a pretty good description of Retool. (I think we're a quite a bit more developer friendly, but it's certainly 80% correct.)
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Re:Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia by swyx on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:57PM (#24843148)
surprised at the final comment. was VB not developer friendly? this wasnt my perception.
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Re:Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia by mst on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:51PM (#24843515)
Depends how you define developer.

VB was definitely "business oriented scripter" friendly. When I needed to do something that felt more like programming than scripting it annoyed the hell out of me.

Note: It was still awesome overall, and the time I spent swearing at it for the complex logic parts was more than worth it for the time and pain I saved elsewhere, but I think that's what the retool founder's trying to gesture at.

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