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by meredydd 7y ago
There is a VB6-like tool for the web! I know, because I co-founded it: https://anvil.works I have ranted at length before on the reason that the Web is not amenable to RAD tooling. The short answer is that you have five differen
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by meredydd 7y ago
There is indeed! I'll start with the one I founded: Anvil, which is an end-to-end Web dev system with Python (plus a drag-and-drop UI builder, and lots more good stuff): https://anvil.works Here's our version of how to
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by meredydd 7y ago
It's only for Web apps so far, but can I interest you in an online development environment with drag'n'drop UI, Python in the browser and on the server, full autocomplete, and a bunch of other creature comforts unavailable in
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by meredydd 7y ago
If you like this, you should definitely read "Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard Mir" by Bryan Burrough. It's an amazing portrait of the disintegrating immediately-ex-Soviet space program, and the disintegrating space stat
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by meredydd 7y ago
> I really want to go back to late-90s desktop UI development sometimes… While it's not a JS framework, can I interest you in an explicitly VB/Delphi-inspired app development tool for the web? It's got drag'n'dro
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by meredydd 8y ago
This Gizmodo post consists entirely of quotes and paraphrases from the original article (which they do at least link to): https://qz.com/1587477/microsoft-investigating-sexual-harass...
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by meredydd 8y ago
Browser-based Visual Basic, you say? We built one! https://anvil.works/ (Mind you, our visual layout tools aren't this powerful at the HTML/CSS level. We have a fairly simple drag'n'drop system, and if y
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by meredydd 8y ago
Agreed - the browser leaves much to be desired as an accessible dev platform, and the web as a whole is even worse! (Why do I need to learn HTML, CSS, JS, Python, SQL and React/Redux/Bootstrap/Flash/SQLAlchemy just to
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Xkcd-Style Sketched Web Apps(anvil.works)
2 points by meredydd 8y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 8y ago
I put together an "XKCD" theme for Anvil that works quite nicely: https://anvil.works/blog/xkcd-style-apps
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by meredydd 8y ago
Anvil | Developer Evangelist | Cambridge, UK | On-site | Full-time or Part-time | https://anvil.works/jobs Help us fix web development at Anvil ( https://anvil.works )! Anvil is a platform for building full-stack
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by meredydd 8y ago
The thing is, making Anvil open source now would virtually guarantee that outcome. The market has spent the last few years demonstrating that the sustainable number of large companies whose main product is open source is...One. (Red Hat, if
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by meredydd 8y ago
Can I interest you in a very Delphi-like IDE for building web apps with nothing but Python? https://anvil.works has a WYSIWYG visual designer, with Python for in-browser code as well as server-side. (We compile it to JS.) It&#x2
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by meredydd 8y ago
May I interest you in something explicitly in that genre? https://anvil.works is VB6, but for the Web, and in Python. No JS frameworks required! We've had data scientists with no Web experience produce MVPs with it in a cou
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by meredydd 8y ago
We've built an explicitly Visual Basic-like development environment for the web, which I think fits your bill: https://anvil.works . It's got a drag'n'drop UI creator, you use Python to build the front-end an
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by meredydd 8y ago
Honestly, if you're looking for a local (Windows) executable, those old 90s tools (VB, Delphi, Xojo [aka RealBasic], even C#) are still great! They're just as good as they were in the 90s; it's just that demand has moved to t
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by meredydd 8y ago
The short answer is, "the Web happened". The Web platform is a stack of approximately five[1] different programming languages (SQL/Python/Javascript/HTML/CSS). Each layer generates source code for an adjacent o
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by meredydd 8y ago
This narrative resonates personally with me. We bootstrapped Anvil in Cambridge (UK), and one of the most common reactions to a demo is "wow, this is actually a real platform, deep enough to have answers to my follow-on questions"
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by meredydd 8y ago
> I've seen no evidence to support the suggestion that building CRUD apps for the web takes 5x as long as with something like PowerBuilder, Delphi, VB etc Well, I have! We actually did the test, with Anvil ( https://anvi
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by meredydd 8y ago
"Every single sentence has a button for taking it out of context" is the best single-sentence summary of Twitter I have yet seen. Thank-you.
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by meredydd 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning us! Yes, this is the sort of thing our customers use Anvil for all the time (including several schools). (And since you ask, our pricing is per developer.) My email is in my profile, or you can just check out the demo&
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by meredydd 8y ago
What was the last version of TCL you used? These days they have an extremely cunning system involving multiple representations: Being TCL, every value is of course canonically a string, but if you do (eg) integer operations the result wil
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by meredydd 8y ago
If you want VB/Delphi-style app builder for Python, can I interest you in Anvil ( https://anvil.works )? It targets the web, but you write all the code (even client-side) in Python. We've had multiple customers describe
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by meredydd 8y ago
As several people here have observed, "we built this for $10,000" actually means "We did something for which the main input was time and effort, and incurred $10k of incidental costs". The physical-goods stories are cute
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by meredydd 8y ago
If you're looking for something like this, but without setting up postfix/sendmail yourself, Anvil has a pretty straightforward API (and it's already hosted on a domain): https://anvil.works/blog/email-dr
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Why “Uber for X” startups fail(andrewchen.co)
1 points by meredydd 8y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 8y ago
Yep :) When you load the uplink library, it makes an HTTPS connection to Anvil from your code, so it can be anywhere as long as it can make outbound requests.
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by meredydd 8y ago
> give me Visual Basic 6's UI builder and all the greatness of a 21st century machine, so that I could finally whip up an UI without yelling profanities at the CSS reference [...] that clearly just wasn't built for this Can I
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YC Demo Day Prototypes #2: Building Magic (YC W15) in 2.5 Hours(anvil.works)
2 points by meredydd 8y ago|0 comments
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How many T-shirts do I need for a developer conference?(anvil.works)
5 points by meredydd 8y ago|1 comments

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