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twinBasic.com is a revamp of VB6 using current tech
by mmerlin 2y ago
twinBasic.com is a revamp of VB6 using current tech
- 1oooqooq 2y agowhy all those products keep backwards compatibility with vb6?!? it's this a niche for some industry? or all those products are aimed at people's nostalgia of running their old programs?
- sigzero 2y agoMaybe. I have a friend that only does VB6 programming support even today. He seems to be doing okay with it.
- wvenable 2y agoVB6 is arguably the most popular and influential version of Basic it only makes sense to keep backwards compatibility with it. Why would anyone not want that from their Visual Basic clone?
- 1oooqooq 2y agobecause that's immensely backwards! what if vb3-6 had the same syntax as msbasic and same ascii text based UIs? it wouldn't have been as popular. these tools could be the modern vb6, having modern UX paradigms such as responsive design etc... yet it is just producing something one would use only for nostalgia or explicitly support for a niche market still needing actual vb6... which i didn't know existed till now.
- wvenable 2y agoThere's nothing stopping anyone from building responsive UI components in this or even in Visual Basic itself. I thought were were talking about VB6, the programming language, not the UI toolkit. They are closely related but not necessarily the same thing. Given that there are already other, more modern, languages and frameworks that do you want you describe I don't think there is a market for that kind of modern Basic. That's why nobody has done it.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoi don't think anything modern or not got even close to vb3-6 usability in creating practical UI programs.