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Amazing! I learned QBasic when I was 12, then moved on to Visual Basic when I was 13. It was such an amazing experience! I'm one of the many people who still

• Stratoscope 1y ago
  Thank you! It means so much to me that you and so many others used what my team built. In all fairness, others in this thread have noted that the form design process back then was simpler than today. We didn't need to worry about mobile, high DPI vs. low DPI, and trying to get things to fit on any size screen. I do see some comments from @90s_dev that sound intriguing. If they are able to get that '90s development experience to work on our modern varieties of displays and devices, that could be quite something!
  • edanm 1y ago
    I mean, I've been a professional developer now for more than 20 years, and it started with learning QBasic from a book and then building stuff with Visual Basic. So VB was literally life-changing for me. I even bought (and still have somewhere!) a book on doing graphics or VFX or something using Visual Basic, though I never really did much with it. I think it was Visual Basic with DirectX or something. Though funny enough I ended up working at Autodesk for a few years on things related to 3d printing and computational geometry, so I eventually did some graphics-related stuff.
    • Stratoscope 1y ago
      > VB was literally life-changing for me. Wow. That is something every developer would hope to hear. Thank you again, my friend.