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A comment on Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?.

Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by bryanlarsen on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:38PM (#37470717)
My personal reason, which is probably unique:

VB 1.0 was extremely buggy, making it unusable for my use cases.

VB 1.1, which fixed the bugs I was encountering, was a paid upgrade.

I switched to Linux and never looked back.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by jules22 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:15AM (#37477428)
VB 5 and 6 were where things worked. They both had native compilers.
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