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I cut my teeth on VB classic, as I'm sure a lot of folks my age did. I was learning C/C++ concurrently, got through the basics, and of course hurried to GUI pr
by axaxs 8y ago
I cut my teeth on VB classic, as I'm sure a lot of folks my age did. I was learning C/C++ concurrently, got through the basics, and of course hurried to GUI programming since that's what I made. It's been 20 something years, but I remember it being something like 31 lines of code to just get an empty window in Windows. With VB it was basically zero effort. I wish WYSIWYG IDEs for both desktop programming AND html (remember frontpage, or hotdog?) would make a comeback in a big way. To this day I shy away from GUI programming because of how tedious it is.
- tabtab 8y agoRe: I [now] shy away from GUI programming because of how tedious it is. It's not really "GUI programming" anymore. It's making HTML/CSS/DOM act like a GUI.
- janvidar 8y agoI also did some VB classic and Delphi back in the day. I later moved on to C++ with Qt. I've not been working on GUI programming much since, but I really enjoyed the Qt experience; good tools and superior documentation. I never liked gtk - much for the same reasons as your Windows GUI C programming; Too verbose for trivial and mundane things.
- floatboth 8y agoIt's only verbose if you use C. GTK is very nice with Rust, C++, D, Vala, Python, JS, Haskell, etc.