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Similarly, Visual Basic. Has anything since allowed non-programmers to build a GUI as easily as that? Just drag and drop, then double click the button and follo

Similarly, Visual Basic. Has anything since allowed non-programmers to build a GUI as easily as that? Just drag and drop, then double click the button and follow the on-screen prompts to glue it all together. It gets a lot of shit from real developers, but what can match it?

orionblastar 9y ago
I did Visual Basic and MS Access programming mostly in the late 1990s. Upscaling to SQL Server when the database grew too large etc. IBM OS/2 had a Parts Workbench that was easier than Visual Basic and Borland had Delphi based on Object Pascal. Ruby on Rails comes close and Python is the new Visual Basic for a new generation of programmers now.
- freehunter 9y ago
  Rails and Python are fine, I've used both of them extensively, but they are no comparison to VB in any way. Sure they're easy enough to use, but it's all 100% pure code. The biggest benefit of VB was the interface was not coded, it was drawn. There's no way to do that with Rails or Python.
  - orionblastar 9y ago
    That sounds like a startup idea. Make ROR and Python have an IDE as easy to use as the VB IDE.
TsomArp 9y ago
Delphi.
- detaro 9y ago
  And it's Open Source "brother", Lazarus.
theamk 9y ago
C#
- soundwave106 9y ago
  I would agree with you on the Winforms portion of the .Net universe. None of the other parts of the .Net universe are comparable, though; most are either kind of clunky (Webforms) or require a much bigger learning curve to get going.
nikofeyn 9y ago
creating a gui in labview is pretty trivial.
pjmlp 9y ago
Delphi, Borland's response to VB but with a saner programming language, with AOT compilation to native code (VB only got it on version 6).
deniska 9y ago
QtCreator has a similar feeling too it, albeit using much more convoluted language.
brisance 9y ago
https://www.xojo.com https://www.xojo.com Been around for a long time, was formerly called RealBASIC.

orionblastar 9y ago

I did Visual Basic and MS Access programming mostly in the late 1990s. Upscaling to SQL Server when the database grew too large etc. IBM OS/2 had a Parts Workbench that was easier than Visual Basic and Borland had Delphi based on Object Pascal. Ruby on Rails comes close and Python is the new Visual Basic for a new generation of programmers now.

freehunter 9y ago
Rails and Python are fine, I've used both of them extensively, but they are no comparison to VB in any way. Sure they're easy enough to use, but it's all 100% pure code. The biggest benefit of VB was the interface was not coded, it was drawn. There's no way to do that with Rails or Python.
- orionblastar 9y ago
  That sounds like a startup idea. Make ROR and Python have an IDE as easy to use as the VB IDE.

TsomArp 9y ago

Delphi.

detaro 9y ago
And it's Open Source "brother", Lazarus.

theamk 9y ago

soundwave106 9y ago
I would agree with you on the Winforms portion of the .Net universe. None of the other parts of the .Net universe are comparable, though; most are either kind of clunky (Webforms) or require a much bigger learning curve to get going.

nikofeyn 9y ago

creating a gui in labview is pretty trivial.

pjmlp 9y ago

Delphi, Borland's response to VB but with a saner programming language, with AOT compilation to native code (VB only got it on version 6).

deniska 9y ago

QtCreator has a similar feeling too it, albeit using much more convoluted language.

brisance 9y ago

https://www.xojo.com https://www.xojo.com Been around for a long time, was formerly called RealBASIC.