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If you think nothing's changed, that should be as good a solution as it ever was, right? If you're going to argue that the computing landscape is no different to 20 years ago in complexity, and the tasks people want to do are no different, it's going to be a tough argument.Д«ut if you do argue that, then you have no problem because VB still exists and you can buy it on eBay.

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Before popular email, before people wanted high-res photo processing and music file tagging, before people wanted to write their own 3d games, before ordinary people wanted cross-platform tools, when everything was ASCII and that was fine, before people had cloud backups or wanted to cross-post their Wordpress blogs to Twitter, before they wanted to integrate with Philips Hue bulbs or have their code run on an rPI, or integrate with an XML web service or a REST API or download 10GB of mapping data and look for patterns in it. VB dates back to 1991, with its last release in 1998.

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This is a convenient lie developers tell themselves to justify their complexity fetish instead of thinking about how to simplify things. I suppose the other big reason is that things like branding and recognition are touted as Really Important (TM), so no one really wants to design a tool that helps you build an interface that looks like any other interface (somewhat ironic, considering how uniform and compliant web design is in 2018).

You need half that time just to explain what CSS is and how to center most things with it, and then you get into the whole renderer process vs. You can whip it up together in 30 minutes, tops, and they can do a variation on that topic all by themselves the next day. You need to explain pretty much four concepts to get them to grok how things work in Visual Basic: what a form is, what an event is, what an event handler is, and how you get and set data from and to UI elements. It's illuminating to show someone who's reasonably apt with computers but never wrote much code (save, maybe, for some Excel formulas) how to write the 'canonical' currency converter app from the NeXTStep docs. But if you've touched Visual Basic, NeXTStep (or Cocoa, or GNUStep), or even Qt for that matter, it seems anything but easy. You look at enthusiastic web developers telling you that Electron is easy if you couple it with React (I think?) or Photon, and I mean, they're sort of right if you're comparing it to GTK (or ohgodohgodohgod MFC). (I've been toggling bits and writing C for a living for a long time now, I certainly suck at anything web-related). They were never exposed to the successes - and many, many failures - of the RAD environments of the 1990s. And not just VB6 - NeXTStep/OpenSTEP, Delphi.

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I honestly think that a big reason why this has not yet happened is that most of the young folks who are equipped with the kind of free time and expertise to do it have no idea how easy Visual Basic was. I know what you mean, and I've often wondered why this hasn't happened yet.