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I agree. VB6 was limited (in some parts in pretty idiotic ways), but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else. While I do think modern

I agree. VB6 was limited (in some parts in pretty idiotic ways), but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else. While I do think modern IDEs do have more powerful debugging features it was really good for its time, and the IDE was super snappy. Even on some slow P133 you'd type an object's name and as soon as you hit '.' you got the list of methods, no perceivable delay. The move to .NET made the language more involved, imo to a point where there was no reason not to just use C#.

Pamar 7y ago
...but for prototyping and simple GUIs it was far ahead of anything else... Better than Delphi? This is out of genuine curiosity because I have basically zero experience with both.
- RantyDave 7y ago
  Yes, but only just. Delphi was a saner language and IIRC faster, too. Both of them blew the modern web front end tools into the weeds. Twenty five years ago.