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I re-evaluated VB6 with age. We "internet kids" liked to shit all over those dated-looking widgets, but the productivity boost it allowed Grown Up People to wri

by toyg 4y ago

I re-evaluated VB6 with age. We "internet kids" liked to shit all over those dated-looking widgets, but the productivity boost it allowed Grown Up People to write apps to Get Real Shit Done, remains fundamentally unmatched today. Its main limit was really the same as Windows: it was fundamentally a single-user application model. It's a shame that Microsoft didn't really manage to make something equivalent for the internet age - mostly because of commercial choices made to support Windows and SqlServer.

kjellsbells 4y ago
+1. People seem to have forgotten the impact of VB apps. I would go so far as to say VB was world changing. Suddenly everyone could create professional-looking apps in whatever domain their business needed. The fact that VB apps had all kinds of DLL hell and security issues cant entirely be laid at the feet of the non professional VB devs of the era, but its cast a pall over what was in some sense a golden age of productivity.