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What was so wrong about VB6? As a language I rather liked it.

• cm2187 10y ago
  I liked it too then, but it is a language from another decade, with many design flaws (no concurrency, arguments byref by default, inconsistent syntax (like when to use Set or 0-based vs 1-based collections)) and that doesn't really work as a modern language. And I did my fair share of php too, that was the only way I would develop a website for many years. But I think the similarity with php is not so much in the quality of the language, but rather that it is an old language, which strength (easily accessible to beginners) also makes its weakness (too many beginners who never moved on or improved their coding style, I personally know "professional" php developers who still do not know what a class is, let alone a sql injection vulnerability). And it becomes unkillable just because of the cheer number of developers to who it is the only known way to write code.
• quickben 10y ago
  From a design perspective: Nothing wrong with VB6. It fulfills it business niche rather well.