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I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the input

I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the inputs and outputs, and publish it. I don't care how you do it, I don't want to know any of the details. I just want to be able to make things quickly and easily. I don't care about programming, I just want to get work done and move on with my life. At this rate, when I'm 80 years old we will still be fucking around with these stupid lines of code, hunched over, ruining our eyesight, becoming ever more atrophied, all to make a fucking text box in a monitor pop some text into a screen on another monitor somewhere else in the world. It's absolutely absurd that we spend this much of our lives to do such a dumb thing, and we've been iterating on it for five decades, and it's still just popping some text in a screen, but we applaud ourselves that we're so advanced now because something you can't even see is doing something different in the background.

CRConrad 4y ago
> I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the inputs and outputs, and publish it. I don't care how you do it, I don't want to know any of the details. Do an Internet search for “Quartex Pascal”, and/or its creator, Jon Aasenden. He has a blog on WordPress, and a Facebook group. His crazy Quartex project is apparently nearing completion. It's an Object Pascal compiler and IDE — kind of a Delphi / Lazarus clone, if you will — that compiles to JavaScript, for the end product to be run in the browser. I think that's as close to “Visual Basic for the web” as one can get.
neurostimulant 4y ago
So, do you want to run a winform app in a browser? Behold! https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18981806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18981806
revelio 4y ago
There's a lot of low-code platforms that do that.
otreblatercero 4y ago
I feel you. I'd love to have a tree that gives money, and I tried to, but somehow I had to implement many things, like invent a seed that can actually produce golden coins, I had to read about alchemy, seed hybridation... I just wanted to get money from a tree. But do not despair, while documenting my process, I found a revolutionary tool called Dreamweaver, I think it's the future, I think it would be terrific for your needs.
unsupp0rted 4y ago
That’s basically what I have with Vue + Vuetify + PUG templates. It’s a pleasure to work with so little boilerplate.

CRConrad 4y ago

> I just want Visual Basic for the web man. Screw writing lines of code. I want to point and click, drop complex automated objects onto a design, put in the inputs and outputs, and publish it. I don't care how you do it, I don't want to know any of the details. Do an Internet search for “Quartex Pascal”, and/or its creator, Jon Aasenden. He has a blog on WordPress, and a Facebook group. His crazy Quartex project is apparently nearing completion. It's an Object Pascal compiler and IDE — kind of a Delphi / Lazarus clone, if you will — that compiles to JavaScript, for the end product to be run in the browser. I think that's as close to “Visual Basic for the web” as one can get.

neurostimulant 4y ago

So, do you want to run a winform app in a browser? Behold! https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18981806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18981806

revelio 4y ago

There's a lot of low-code platforms that do that.

otreblatercero 4y ago

I feel you. I'd love to have a tree that gives money, and I tried to, but somehow I had to implement many things, like invent a seed that can actually produce golden coins, I had to read about alchemy, seed hybridation... I just wanted to get money from a tree. But do not despair, while documenting my process, I found a revolutionary tool called Dreamweaver, I think it's the future, I think it would be terrific for your needs.

unsupp0rted 4y ago

That’s basically what I have with Vue + Vuetify + PUG templates. It’s a pleasure to work with so little boilerplate.