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At great risk to my HN karma I’m gonna share from the heart. VB was the pinnacle of software development. Nothing about it was perfect, except it was easy for
by ryanmarsh 7y ago
At great risk to my HN karma I’m gonna share from the heart.
VB was the pinnacle of software development.
Nothing about it was perfect, except it was easy for anyone to build anything. I saw everything from kids making shareware to phd’s building multi-hundred-million dollar ERP systems.
A lot of nice-enough and useful software was built in VB that remained useful and editable over long lifetimes.
I pine for something like that in the mobile or web worlds. Everything else I’ve tried is an absolute mess in comparison.
- brisance 7y agoHyperCard. And if you like VB, check out Xojo. https://xojo.com https://xojo.com
- Yhippa 7y ago> except it was easy for anyone to build anything I'm right with you. I taught so many people at places I've worked basic automation with VBA for Excel. People basically used Excel as a database so this was a massive timesaver for them. Being able to record yourself doing something and seeing the generated code was the modern-day software development equivalent of "teaching someone how to fish". > I pine for something like that in the mobile or web worlds Hypercard, but for the year 2019.
- crispinb 7y ago> I pine for something like that in the mobile or web worlds A recentish episode of a python podcast (https://www.pythonpodcast.com/anvil-web-application-development-episode-215/ https://www.pythonpodcast.com/anvil-web-application-developm...) had an interview with one of the founders of Anvil (https://anvil.works/ https://anvil.works/). He claimed VB & Delphi as significant inspirations for their web app platform (using python for front & back ends, with a drag/drop GUI builder). Might be worth a look, if only for curiosity's sake.