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Open sourcing the original VB6 would be an incredible move by Microsoft. Something tells me that this could be a quite successful community project. Possibly f
by kerng 7y ago
Open sourcing the original VB6 would be an incredible move by Microsoft.
Something tells me that this could be a quite successful community project. Possibly for building cross platform apps for phones.
I like how we are at least talking again about Visual Basic recently - maybe it inspires the industry to build a super easy to learn language/environment for UI and data apps again.
VB had an extremely low barrier of entry, it was truly empowering for many non techies.
- rkeene2 7y agoOr at least VB 1.0 for DOS
- bitwize 7y agoThey should open-source Q(uick)Basic and with it GORILLAS.BAS, MONEY.BAS, NIBBLES.BAS, and DONKEY.BAS. State-of-the-art programming power for your XT, 286, or higher PC compatible, free and open source.
- anthk 7y agoCheck QB64. It runs even that Stephen King novel based text adventure.
- ijidak 7y agoYes, please! Would love to develop quick personal use apps using a modernized vb6. I'm a big .Net & C# programmer. But feel like no tool is as efficient for quick GUI apps as VB6 was.