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When I was young and stupid I was trying to learn game development in VB6. I had a type library that provided bindings for DirectX. This was in the late 90s,
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
When I was young and stupid I was trying to learn game development in VB6. I had a type library that provided bindings for DirectX. This was in the late 90s, so I would have been on Windows 98.
I learned quickly how SLOW VB was, but was in denial about it. I wanted to make it work, but anything that required more than a few lines of logic made it impossible to maintain even 30 fps. At the time, though, I was afraid of C/C++. I thought "Those languages are too complicated! Why would anyone use them when VB is so simple?"
Yeah...I learned.
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