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Ironically, I know everything from ASM to...well many languages, including C, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc. The most productive tools I used prior t
by eek2121 4y ago
Ironically, I know everything from ASM to...well many languages, including C, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript, etc.
The most productive tools I used prior to learning all of that? HyperCard on the Mac, Visual Basic on Windows. Why? Tooling. Even when you had to get down and dirty, it seemed the tooling helped you out in some way. Shoot, I wrote an application back in the 90s in VB6 that still is functional TODAY not just in Windows, but in Linux and MacOS (thanks to translation layers such as Wine)
The same can NOT be said for the game I made in C++/OpenGL later...
- analog31 4y agoI have personally never regretted using tools that were dismissed as "toys" by the mainstream devs. Including HC, VB, and Arduino. I've got a VB5 program running in the factory that has had virtually zero failures in use for 14 years. I even hand-translated a curve fitting routine from Numerical Recipes into VB.
- pjmlp 4y agoWhat angers me on Windows world is how the WinDev team routinely sabotages VB and C# efforts to be back to those productive flow in graphics programming on the platform. Managed Direct X, XNA, all killed when their advocates gave up fighting for them. Nowadays they proudly refer to Unity when one complains about missing .NET bindings to DirectX.