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I'm not sure it was the mindset or just no real mechanism for making isolated components.

• badsectoracula 6y ago
  There 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 ago
    Windows had a whole mechanism with VBX and OCX for building the components and keeping their innards isolated. Javascript had no equivalent.
    • badsectoracula 6y ago
      Yes, 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).