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Re:Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual ... by svachalek on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:49PM (#35200376)
Today's equivalent would be an IDE that you hit "new project" and type a few lines and draw a few boxes and you've got something up and running in the cloud. There's nothing like it as far as I know; there's an entire generation or more who have never seen programming work like that, and don't even envision it, it seems. Bold ambitions these days usually amount to a clone of a popular thing, with some kind of tweak that's interesting but not nearly interesting enough to get people to move.
Re:Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual ... by jeffdn on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:16PM (#35202303)
ReTool is sorta this — I imagine that’s why they published this article!
Re:Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual ... by analognoise on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:23PM (#35202389)
FreePascal/Lazarus is like that, it's actively maintained and totally free.

They're even adding iOS, Android and web targets. Give it a try!

Re:Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual ... by st00 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @07:20PM (#35214225)
Would Glitch be a modern equivalent? https://glitch.com/
Re:Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual ... by anildash on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:07PM (#35214909)
We definitely took inspiration from Visual Basic, and Alan Cooper has been an advisor and influence from the start for us.