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Happy b-day VB, you where the node.js of the 90's, the starting point for many successful carers.
by walkingolof 10y ago
Happy b-day VB, you where the node.js of the 90's, the starting point for many successful carers.
- cm2187 10y agoCarers, i.e. people who take care of legacy code or careers?
- sievebrain 10y agoWould be nice. Sadly node.js shares many of VB's warts, whilst having few of its nicer features. I'm not the only one who looks at what the industry had in the 1990's and thinks we've gone backwards. All Microsoft had to do was build a non-crappy online update and installation system, and our whole industry could look very different. But MS failed, utterly, in fact they made it worse, and we've ended up with the web - a pale imitation of real software development, but hey, you can deploy it without being hamstrung by a dysfunctional IT department and stuff updates silently.
- rbanffy 10y agoI'm uncertain saying Node.js is the VB of the 2010's is a nice thing to say or not. I wrote tons of VB code but, in retrospect, I realize it was a crude tool. Efficient, in that it allowed me to build some fairly large business apps, but not really something that encouraged best practices of later eras.