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Still hoping Microsoft will open source VB 6. It indeed was a language for the masses back then. There would have been no need for Python syntax or Golang with
by kerng 7y ago
Still hoping Microsoft will open source VB 6. It indeed was a language for the masses back then.
There would have been no need for Python syntax or Golang with Visual Basic's simplicity
- MichaelMoser123 7y ago> There would have been no need for Python syntax or Golang with Visual Basic's simplicity in a windows only world.
- kerng 7y agoNot if they would have made it open source 2001 - or anytime later for that matter.
- MichaelMoser123 7y agoEven with such a decision it would have been quite a lot of work to make VB relevant to the non windows way of doing things (i mean anything that is not done as event handlers to UI widgets of some sort)
- int_19h 7y agoThe semantics of VB6 are basically that of OLE Automation (or vice versa - it can be hard to tell sometimes). That doesn't make it impossible to port to other platforms, but it would require extra effort. And the result wouldn't have all the benefits VB had on Windows, where COM was pretty much OS-level native at the time.
- zozbot234 7y agoVisual Basic and Python are not that simple. Simplistic maybe. Go is a lot closer to the mark, though. It might be the closest thing we have today to classic QuickBasic (the "Visual" part being pretty GUI-dependent, all things considered). Haskell is also getting there - the baseline syntax is extremely simple.