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Old-school visual basic, but maybe powered by python or another modern scripting language.

zubairq 8y ago
I'm building this at dannea.com, but powered by js
api 8y ago
Agreed. Best visual GUI editor ever made. A modern reboot of similar concepts with modern look and feel would be something I would pay for, especially if you could target both desktop and mobile.
- hsitz 8y ago
  The VB GUI editor and IDE generally were a fair ways behind that of Delphi, back in the 90's. With current Lazarus/FreePascal open source Delphi clone you can get a feel for it
jakear 8y ago
What do you mean by old school? Isn’t it powered by .NET, why would you change that? Genuinely curious, I don’t know much about msft’s developer tools.
- topkai22 8y ago
  No, Visual Basic was its own development stack direct to the OS. It had some pretty nice tooling for creating GUIs in a drag and drop manner. The last version was 6 and that was initially released in 1998. That being said, the VB6 runtime is STILL in Windows 10, and therefore will be officially supported to a degree for at least 5-8 more years. How’s that for backwards compatibility.
  - topkai22 8y ago
    In the early 2000 MSFT released VB .NET (a different language and platform) as a successor, which is what you are thinking of. What the OP misses is the tooling surrounding VB6
meredydd 8y ago
May I interest you in something explicitly in that genre? https://anvil.works https://anvil.works is VB6, but for the Web, and in Python. No JS frameworks required! We've had data scientists with no Web experience produce MVPs with it in a couple of weeks.
- coleifer 8y ago
  What I miss about VB was the ease with which I could make desktop applications.
badsectoracula 8y ago
The thing with VB is that the language was designed for the IDE, not the other way around, so i'm not sure if any ready made language would work as good as VB6-the-language worked with VB6-the-ide.

I'm building this at dannea.com, but powered by js

api 8y ago

Agreed. Best visual GUI editor ever made. A modern reboot of similar concepts with modern look and feel would be something I would pay for, especially if you could target both desktop and mobile.

hsitz 8y ago
The VB GUI editor and IDE generally were a fair ways behind that of Delphi, back in the 90's. With current Lazarus/FreePascal open source Delphi clone you can get a feel for it

jakear 8y ago

What do you mean by old school? Isn’t it powered by .NET, why would you change that? Genuinely curious, I don’t know much about msft’s developer tools.

topkai22 8y ago
No, Visual Basic was its own development stack direct to the OS. It had some pretty nice tooling for creating GUIs in a drag and drop manner. The last version was 6 and that was initially released in 1998. That being said, the VB6 runtime is STILL in Windows 10, and therefore will be officially supported to a degree for at least 5-8 more years. How’s that for backwards compatibility.
- topkai22 8y ago
  In the early 2000 MSFT released VB .NET (a different language and platform) as a successor, which is what you are thinking of. What the OP misses is the tooling surrounding VB6

meredydd 8y ago

May I interest you in something explicitly in that genre? https://anvil.works https://anvil.works is VB6, but for the Web, and in Python. No JS frameworks required! We've had data scientists with no Web experience produce MVPs with it in a couple of weeks.

coleifer 8y ago
What I miss about VB was the ease with which I could make desktop applications.

badsectoracula 8y ago

The thing with VB is that the language was designed for the IDE, not the other way around, so i'm not sure if any ready made language would work as good as VB6-the-language worked with VB6-the-ide.