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This shows me that coding hasn't evolved at all over the last 30 years.
by sktrdie 6y ago
This shows me that coding hasn't evolved at all over the last 30 years.
- apostacy 6y agoVisual Basic was one of the first languages I learned, and I was able to quickly make complex graphical applications. I feel like we have regressed in a lot of ways. Contrast building a GUI app in 1990 vs 2020. Compare Visual Basic to something like React Native. How much code would you have to write for some basic business application, like having a few screens that share a state, and interface with a database? How big would the executable be? Visual Basic had some big flaws, but you could work around those flaws. And I can also explain the logic of a Visual Basic program fairly easily to someone inexperienced. And there is just so much less cognitive load involved. I feel like 90% of the actual code that I wrote was for actually processing data. Sure, asynchronous stuff could get difficult in VB, but that was the exception. And I wish that VB had had reducers. I am certain that virtualizing the x86 Visual Basic 6 runtime in Javascript would easier to develop for and outperform many modern GUI frameworks today.