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I once encountered an actual real live business application that included a web server written in VB6....
by arethuza 8y ago
I once encountered an actual real live business application that included a web server written in VB6....
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI can see how that would go; I mean "how to serve static files" is one of the first things that you can learn when doing e.g. NodeJS.
- arethuza 8y agoI never did find out the real reason - I suspect (as it was a relatively small business that had been acquired) that it was because they were too cheap to pay for a server edition of Windows.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoThe only sucky things about VB6 was threading wasn't a regular language feature. You could get to it through the WinAPI but that's not organic enough for most VB programmers. One thing I do miss about VB6 is that you didn't need an entire runtime to build a GUI.
- PopsiclePete 8y agoI wouldn’t say that was the only thing...error handling was a mess and I don’t even want to remember what I had to do to make a hash table - there were definitely low level calls to RtlMoveMemory and such.