A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
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pcdoodle1
sijmen
Slick! Thanks for bringing back some memories of how i got into programming; by automating math-homework in visual basic.
broast
This is amazing
diavelguru
talk about a blast from the past!
vunderba
Nice job - definitely consider implementing at least a little bit of the Win32 API layer! For kicks I tried importing an old highschool VB6 map editor at it which uses BitBlt but sadly it didn't work.
orthodonticjake
easy way to trigger an Epic developer
Onavo
Wait Epic as in the medical software is written in VB6‽
roywiggins
The GUI parts are or were.
And parts of their patient portal website were still VB6 on the backend a decade ago, not sure that's true anymore. Visual Basic 6 as a web backend.
SoftTalker
VB was the backend language for the vast majority of original Active Server Pages sites.
truetraveller
Was this done with an LLM? Repo?
ranger_danger
Their github account lists over 5,000 commits and 1,500 pull requests... just in the last 4 days.
tech234a
Yes, if you look at the developer's Twitter account they've shared a large number of projects in the past week, including in-browser recreations of Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95, 3.1, Mac OS 9, Word, Excel, OneNote, Access, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Reader, a Git Client, a CAD program, a video editor, etc. https://x.com/wieslawsoltes
hagbard_c
The speed with which this thing launches in a browser should put shame on the faces of current IDE developers. While VB itself was nothing to write home about there certainly was something lost when hardware became more powerful. Imagine what current and 'recent' hardware were capable of if only efficiency was taken seriously again. Maybe generative AI can provide a boost where human developers would rather spend their time on chasing the latest fads, adding yet another feature or inversely removing even more functionality in an attempt to create the 'perfect' sparse application? Let the humans think up the features and write the initial implementation, then loosen the bots on the code to make it run as efficiently as possible on hardware which used to be current a few generations back.
hyperhello
The power relationship between the computer and the human has shifted since then. We want our computers to run slower so we don’t feel quite so inferior.
Sarkie
Intellisense?
Was that there?
nvme0n1p1
What do you mean?
Does the site have intellisense? Yes
Did VB6 have intellisense? Also yes
mkrishnan
Wow. very nice, it even runs the app
Awesome! If only we could publish the programs as a PWA :)