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What went wrong with Visual Basic? The language was simple enough for beginners but not sophisticated enough to scale for large projects. All too often you wo
by david927 9y ago
What went wrong with Visual Basic?
The language was simple enough for beginners but not sophisticated enough to scale for large projects. All too often you would have a project that started in VB as a proof of concept which then extended to become the actual system, and then as that system grew it started to collapse under its own weight. The conversion to the CLR fixed a lot of that, but now it isn't really for beginners anymore.
HTML/CSS/Javascript was botched so badly
That combination is atrocious out-of-the-box. There was no "botching" it, but rather (again) scaling to larger problems showed that the foundation was always made of sand.
- justherefortart 9y agoVisual Basic was fantastic for kicking out a UI. If you needed anything larger, all you had to do was build DLLs and reference them. So easy front end and easy back end. The best of both worlds.
- rurban 9y agoVisual Basic was also fantastic to kick out multithreading server code. The problem was always libraries and lack of language reflection.