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VB7 would have been nice. They were missing a couple of key features that prevented it from being true OOP language. As far as open sourcing it... I think one
by starik36 2y ago
VB7 would have been nice. They were missing a couple of key features that prevented it from being true OOP language.
As far as open sourcing it... I think one of the people who worked on VB6 (can't remember the name) mentioned on a podcast that it's impossible to open source it because it uses all sorts of proprietary libraries from 3rd parties. The effort to track down the rights holders 20 years later would be a real challenge and not even a guarantee that they would go along with it.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoThat's a shame, I would be alright with a stripped down version of it that has only the Microsoft specific as open source. I'm mostly curious given an open source release of it, how much would the wider open source community work on it. We saw that Go despite its core maintainers not porting it to Windows, got ported to Windows by the community.