Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?

Re:Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still li... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:53PM (#31522651)

Visual Basic 6.0

In the 20+ years since it came out, I still haven’t found an easier and more productive way to create a CRUD app, or to quickly put together a simple GUI.

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Re:Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still li... by mikewarot on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:37PM (#31523652)

Lazarus, based on Free Pascal, is close to that easy. The documentation isn't as good. It is cross platform, which is a big plus.

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Re:Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still li... by Tozen on Monday May 30, 2022 @02:01PM (#31561737)

The Lazarus/Delphi style IDEs are what many languages want to have something similar to. I see a lot of Golang users wishing they had such.

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Re:Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still li... by yesenadam on Saturday May 28, 2022 @10:49AM (#31540766)

I feel the same about C++ Builder 4. It's a little weird that 20+ years later on a new Mac I don't know how to do most of the things with GUIs I was doing effortlessly back then on Windows ME.

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Re:Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still li... by mrlemke on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:00PM (#31541352)

Gambas is the best I have seen for something that feels like VB6. It's Linux only, but it has JIT.

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