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No chunk of them moved on to app development for iOS/Mac?
by MichaelZuo 3y ago
No chunk of them moved on to app development for iOS/Mac?
- crazygringo 3y agoHonestly, not really. I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but VB was never used for "traditional" app development in the first place -- you weren't going to write a Photoshop or Word in VB, or even something small like a CD ripper or a music player, since it was so cumbersome to access any of the Win32 API's -- and performance wasn't anywhere close to C/C++ either. VB was used for business apps that connected to databases, and those apps really did just entirely move to the web. It was such a gigantic benefit that web apps were inherently cross-platform, didn't have to be installed or deal with different versions of binaries, and could add new features instantly for everyone. And Microsoft inadvertently hastened the transition by making VB.NET backwards-incompatible with VB6, at just the time that web apps had become capable enough. Since all this software was going to need to be rewritten to some degree anyways, might as well rewrite it for the web sooner than later, and get all those new benefits.
- steve1977 3y agoI have some doubts about the actual benefits of web apps, especially for corporate software. In such settings, software distribution is a long-solved problem, also clients are usually not that heterogeneous.