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Re:Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? by jbandela1 on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:23PM (#31783790)
Another is Bill Gates Visual Basic 1.0 demo

It was revolutionary. Before that, making a Windows GUI was pretty low level with calls to C APIs and callbacks and registrations.

Visual Basic changed all that with point and drag and drop and you could make a GUI in a matter of minutes.

https://youtu.be/Fh_UDQnboRw

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Re:Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? by WillDeAth on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:30PM (#31784612)
Having Visual Basic as the first language I ever wrote, this is awesome to see the pitch!
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Re:Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? by intrepidsoldier on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:14PM (#31784459)
The original LowCode demo.
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Re:Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? by protomyth on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:18PM (#31787011)
Steve Jobs NeXT development demos were out before 1991.
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