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Well, the old VBX market was pretty robust. I remember receiving catalogs in the mail advertising components to add to a Visual Basic project.
by protomyth 6y ago
Well, the old VBX market was pretty robust. I remember receiving catalogs in the mail advertising components to add to a Visual Basic project.
- badsectoracula 6y agoSame for Delphi, MFC and to a lesser extent WinForms. I think the rise of open source libraries simply killed that market and with the web being steeped into open source mindset from the get go, it never took off there.
- protomyth 6y agoI'm not sure it was the mindset or just no real mechanism for making isolated components.
- badsectoracula 6y agoThere isn't much of a mechanism in any of those, the components were essentially libraries. Sure, in Delphi and VB you get a tiny icon to represent the component and a visual property editor, but that doesn't really translate web stuff that is 100% text-based. AFAIK MFC has nothing visual.
- protomyth 6y agoWindows had a whole mechanism with VBX and OCX for building the components and keeping their innards isolated. Javascript had no equivalent.
- badsectoracula 6y agoYes, but this was only for Visual Basic. Delphi, MFC and WinForms each have their own and is just a library. JavaScript also had libraries since, if nothing else, you can always load multiple scripts per html page. Also, FWIW, i wasn't only referring to JavaScript but also server-side too (e.g. PHP or Python or whatever).
- pjmlp 6y agoThe market is still there, the customers I work for, keep buying such components, even in 2020.