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Visual basic, no love in 15 years and still kicking C#'s ass on the desktop

• captainmuon 13y ago
  Despite its flaws and the scores of bad software written in it, old-school VB was awesome! It was incredibly easy to click together a UI, and fill in the business logic. You had basically no boilerplate or glue code. And there was a huge market for components - report generators, glossy buttons, fancy list views, plotting controls, you name it. I believe the ease of use of VB and the availability of all those COM/ActiveX controls was a huge factor in MS's success in the late 90s.
  • XorNot 13y ago
    I would go so far as to argue that we've never succeeded in composing anything better for the task either (since VB6 is hanging around). The Linux desktop desperately needs something that easy to use, but which works with SCC and gently encourages some structure. Glade with a built-in Python IDE which hides the boilerplate could probably do it (along with a bit more clarity to how you build up an interface in Glade).
• zequel 13y ago
  What is this desktop you speak of? ;) I disagree, I find most .net developers I meet use c#. I just don't know the breakdown of whether they're Winform/wpf or asp.net developers specifically.