it seems pretty reasonable to charge $30-50 a month for somebody doing the hero's work of reimplementing and building on top of a 30 year old programming environment. also there's a free one! spray money the people who do crazy niche work! that's what makes the world beautiful!
Re:XYPlorer Is Written in VB6
by forgotpwd16 on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:34AM
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>A dev tool with a monthly subscription?
It seems that can buy a perpetual license for GBP £5000 / developer, which is equal to 16 years of monthly subscription (quite optimistic for a 3yo project).
They actually have a new year deal [0] on a perpetual licence to all v1 versions for £249, equal to 10 months of the subscription.
Re:XYPlorer Is Written in VB6
by neverartful on Saturday January 11, 2025 @09:33AM
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They do have a free tier. It's nice having more dev tool options than fewer options.
Re:XYPlorer Is Written in VB6
by VB6-Programming on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:20AM
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twinBASIC programming has a free Community Edition.
An alternative is B4J, a free (as in beer) BASIC that compiles to Java, so should run just about anywhere. It also has
* B4A - a free version for Android * B4R - a free version for Arduino and ESP8266 * B4I - a paid version for iOS
The main (sole?) developer is ridiculously responsive and helpful.