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Let's refactor the posed question to: what natural forces circumstances and history of evolution have led to the current situation? MS Access (1992) and Visual

• Crinus 7y ago
  Well, they did took over when it came to desktop. But in the 2000s the web became popular as a target for applications so their desktop dominance wasn't the only thing that mattered. However in their niches MS Access and Excel (VB not anymore but that was because Microsoft forcefully killed it, not because the developers that used it decided by themselves to move away from it) are still dominant (in fact so dominant that they overflow from these "niches" - see how many stories of Excel VBA doing things that weren't "supposed" to be done in Excel).
• nine_k 7y ago
  If you want a replacement for Visual Basic, take Ruby on Rails. It lets you do a lot of simple things easily and quickly, and provides enough hand-holding for a beginner. No such thing around the frontend, though. No form designer. There are several things that generate crude but working HTML from simple descriptions, though. Very much like a VB program, such an app is hard to make look polished, but it's not the point.