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Looking into it! :D

Ha, found: https://github.com/tanathos/ClippyVS

However, the guys on the Discord Visual Basic server have managed to spin it up on WSL.

https://discord.gg/Y8EH5fF6WG

I actually had Claude do a lot of research into libraries. We tried a LOT of them before finding Gtk# 3 stable enough on the version used. What also was a factor was finding a version of dotnet on Linux that was stable for this combination. And it wasn't so much what would compile together, it was more what packages were available for MX Linux (my preferred flavor).

Gtk 3 has a weird way of doing scrolled controls that I couldn't accept because the nesting caused all kinds if issues. Also, the Gtk text control is incredibly slow when the file in it grows past 600 lines.

I wrote the editor control with an architectural design I created originally back in 2004, and subsequently lost. Much, much faster implementation. Took about 3 weeks with Claude.

Also wrote a treeview, listbox, colorpicker. Those took a day or two each with Claude. I will be releasing those controls in a dotnet library when I am finished with SimpleIDE.

Its still quite rough around the edges. I would not recommend it for production at this time.

No, I'm sorry, SimpleIDE was designed specifically for targeting Linux.

Haha, I laughed when you said this. I've only been writing it for a little over two months now. But thank you!

VB.NET's verbose syntax actually makes it PERFECT for AI assistance. And it is being developed with full AI integration.

And, Linux lacks any such tools. Not even VS Code has a plugin for VB.

And what makes this project significant is there's a lack of VB.NET tools on Linux.

It has been challenging trying to get Gtk 3 widgets to play nice. Finally just rolled my own custom-drawn editor, treeview, and listbox. Going to release them later in a library.

Well, that would certainly be a stretch goal. Right now its all code.

Definitely a great deal of nostalgia for me. Years ago, I had written this project up from scratch and later lost all my source code in an accident.

I learned about vibe coding two months ago and, wow, writing this with Claude has been lots of fun. Almost to the point in the project of having full AI integration in the IDE.

Updated. Thx.

A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems.

Almost as bad as a private email server being used for governmental business.

I don't think his voters watch CNN, so there's no trouble from this for Trump.

And burning crosses on front lawns brings people together like nothing else.

How did MAGA become so rabid during the last administration???

So they might not return money that taxpayers volunteered...

Most people misunderstand what's really going on at the federal level. The federal government is a conglomerate of corporations (all listed on Dunn & Bradstreet), and the parent corporation has been forced into chapter 11 bankruptcy, and is also absorbing the debts of the District of Columbia municipal corporation's chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Musk is merely auditing and liquidating all the subsidiary corporations at the order of the bankruptcy court. That is why no federal judge is able to shut him down. Musk is walking into agencies with a court order and cannot be stopped.

Gotta remember - Trump was the king of bankruptcies. He had several very large corporations of his own go under.

When Musk and Trump are done, the federal government will be very lean indeed.

Looks like this administration isn't going to bow down to special interests trying to use the courts to stymie it.

Anyone know what the first human animals to give each other names? Just asking.

It must come as the cost of implementing censorship.

This is true. And when hospitals refuse non-vaccinated patients, there should be an antitrust investigation.

That's why they hodl.

Irregardless, 800m ounces is the annual output of all mines on the planet. How will BOA satisfy the shorts?

Probably the most interesting paragraph of the article to me was:

>The seriousness of this issue is rooted in the scale of the numbers. If Bank of America is short 800 million oz of silver, as the data in the OCC report strongly suggests, then that means every dollar higher in the price of silver translated into an $800 million open (unrealized) loss. Every $10 move equates to an $8 billion loss. A hundred dollar move higher from here equates to an $80 billion loss. Can BofA fund such losses or will taxpayers be called upon to bail the bank out? Even the slightest hint of such a development should be enough to require immediate clarification from the regulators and BofA and there’s a lot more than the slightest hint in the OCC report.

I had an Amiga 3000, and the significant thing for me with it was that I could run my multiline BBS at the same time as I could play games or do other things. Before Windows 3.0. During the MS-DOS era.