The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

[Chris Tyrie]

Pascal annoyed me because I had to leave MASM behind. VB annoyed me because I had to leave Pascal behind.
B4X didn't annoy me, it's just better. It should be mandated by law.

 

[emexes]

Believe me, i really missed my "On Error Resume Next" feature in vb6, very useful to escape stubborn program that refuses to run in some instances.

Admittedly it is not quite as global (or to apply some positive spin: is more like a scalpel than an axe) but I have found that a Try Catch 'Dilligaf construct achieves the same result

 

[npsonic]

No! i meant " On Error Resume Next", not with "goto" statement

Nothing better than "On Error Resume Next" when used it's like 'No worries bro, I got this' at same time half of the plants systems are crashing as script didn't throw any error just skipped whole script and moved on.

 

[Chris Tyrie]

Never missed "On Error Resume Next". Never needed it.

 

[aeric]

Some VB developers had also discovered, in the late 1990s, that a Borland tool called Delphi was superior to VB in almost every way: more powerful, faster, and compiling native code applications that were easier to deploy. Delphi’s form designer was influenced by VB, and its inventor, Anders Hejlsberg, moved on to Microsoft where he created both C# and later, TypeScript.

Why this guy murdered VB then created awful programming languages out of other already bad languages and make them worse?

Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die • DEVCLASS

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[Mashiane]

Why this guy murdered VB then created awful programming languages out of other already bad languages and make them worse?

Perhaps he had a vendetta. I will never understand it too.

 

[Mashiane]

Some VB developers had also discovered, in the late 1990s, that a Borland tool called Delphi was superior to VB in almost every way: more powerful, faster, and compiling native code applications that were easier to deploy. Delphi’s form designer was influenced by VB, and its inventor, Anders Hejlsberg, moved on to Microsoft where he created both C# and later, TypeScript.

Why this guy murdered VB then created awful programming languages out of other already bad languages and make them worse?

Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die • DEVCLASS

Developer Alan Cooper conceived Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) as a “shell construction kit,” according to a new history […]

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And now the big players are ditching TypeScript and going back to Vanilla JS. Wow...

 

[aeric]

Perhaps he had a vendetta. I will never understand it too.

maybe M$

 

[aeric]

I don't know anyone heard of F# and really use it.

Why M$ don't want to evolve VB but instead go for another language, making VB a second class language and bring F# to first class?
Isn't VB can do whatever F# can do already?
Don't tell me it is to compete with Python. It will sure fail miserably.

C# created to compete with Java ?
TypeScript created to compete with JavaScript ?
F# created to compete with Python ?

Is C# + TypeScript = F# ?
or is it Fortran# ?

 

[Magma]

@aeric Well, when VB started dying... first symptoms of not updating and fixing problems, or bugs had... I just thought... will come out the VB7...

but never came...

Then tried Hundreds of VB-like languages... powerbasic, truebasic, realbasic, darkbasic (3d creating was good), every basic and more than basic...

The only Basic liked... B4X... at first thought.. when first app compiled... got a jar... and said hey... that is not a native app... then thought it a lot... and said to myself... it is no need to learn java... and you get java that works in billion devices !

The biggest B4X difference... not having limits.... all known platforms supported, big community - i can say that is bigger than vb, hundreds of working free LIBRARIES, EXCELLENT SUPPORT ! ...

and as I said... NO Limits...