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We really need a "GUI First" toolkit. Something where you can design different windows with drag and drop, and quickly/easily attach scripts to each event. IMO
by eek2121 4y ago
We really need a "GUI First" toolkit. Something where you can design different windows with drag and drop, and quickly/easily attach scripts to each event. IMO VB6 actually did a really great job in that department, but Microsoft decided to throw the sink at it rather than fixing the issues.
With VB6 you could design a simple form in seconds, or if you needed Windows API access you could also do so quite easily. I wasn't a fan of the language itself, but what you could build in a hurry? That is unmatched by anything today. You could literally build a tool to query any database with a Windows ODBC driver in under an hour.
- ale42 4y agoThat's the reason I'm using Lazarus, even if I prefer programming in C++ rather than Pascal... it's basically like VB6, you can design a form, associate code to events and make an application is seconds. It also has database support, it is multi-platform, and generates native code. It's too bad that such a tool doesn't exist for C++! (There's Qt of course but I find that you can't make things SO quickly with Qt Creator)
- vultour 4y agoC# in Visual Studio is probably closest to this. You get a visual editor + the .NET library is quite huge. Alternatively Lazarus (or Delphi, but I don't know what the licensing situations is right now).
- marcus_holmes 4y agoI miss VB. My most productive programming environment ever. But VB did Windows Desktop applications only, which was fine at the time. The huge problem now is catering to 3 operating systems plus web. I'm not sure we're ever going to overcome that.
- hammyhavoc 4y agoI wish I could shout this from the rooftops—though I fear most people would simply call the police. :- )