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There was a parallel universe where VB was going to be a web scripting language. That idea got hamstrung by two things: 1) It turns out cross-platform web com
by shadowgovt 3y ago
There was a parallel universe where VB was going to be a web scripting language.
That idea got hamstrung by two things:
1) It turns out cross-platform web compatibility was way more important than anything else, so nobody wanted to write web pages using vbscript if that meant Netscape Navigator / Firefox couldn't read them. MS wasn't willing to either let the language go into the public or subsidize developing the engine for other browsers, so the web dev space just kinda... Didn't care
2) It may have hung on as a scripting language for IE-only stacks, but the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit (and subsequent appearance of Chrome on the scene as a better enterprise browser, with its stability improvements and process sandboxing) ended that era.