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When I first played with VB in the early nineties, it was also about the time Microsoft Foundation Classes was released. I compared the two approaches for build
by grumpyprole 4y ago
When I first played with VB in the early nineties, it was also about the time Microsoft Foundation Classes was released. I compared the two approaches for building UIs and it pretty much soured my opinion of C++ for life.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoOh man, while we got a lot done with MFC, I scorned the macro mess that VC++ generated. To this day I detest C/C++ macros and never use them in my own code. But years later, when I had to switch to the Mac and Project Builder, I couldn't believe how half-assed its integration with Interface Builder was. You couldn't even drag from a control in your UI layout to your view's source code to generate a code stub. You had to manually type stuff like IBOUTLET. And there was no bi-directional updating either, of course. It has gotten a lot better since. Meanwhile, whereas I used to love the Visual Studio IDE itself, I find the same ridiculous bugs in it that I reported 20 years ago...