How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its sudden fall from grace
4 points by henryluo 4 days ago | 5 comments
  • henryluo 4 days ago |
    Do you agree to Linus Torvalds that “Visual Basic did more for programming than Object-Oriented Languages did”?
    • zubairq 6 hours ago |
      Yes, I agree with that
    • bigfatkitten 4 hours ago |
      > Torvalds, as it turns out, was right: it was primarily the tools, ecosystems, integrations, and frameworks that would define the near future, not the design of the languages themselves.

      JavaScript, as a case in point. It's a terrible language.

  • fuzzfactor 4 days ago |
    One thing's for sure. It was instantly recognizable that deprecating the regular Visual Basic for the .NET version was a very stupid decision indeed.
  • sillywalk 4 days ago |
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    443 points by panic on March 17, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 259 comments

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35192913

    As a teen, I remember I had a copy of Visual Basic 3, and made a game called time-waster 3000. Being able to just "create a GUI" with drag-and-drop, as opposed to having to program one made making quick useful apps a lot easier for non-programmers. (For better or worse)