Visual Basic is dead, Long Live B4X - Now on Medium

Mashiane

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Visual Basic is dead, Long Live B4X!

Many years ago Visual Basic (Classic) was the go to programming of choice for some. It was in 1995 when my then employer gave me a thick…
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Now leme go back to work!
 

Indic Software

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Not really.

Check out twinBasic it is re-surging in a more powerful way like a phoenix!
 

aeric

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Indic Software said:
Not really.

Check out twinBasic it is re-surging in a more powerful way like a phoenix!
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Good news for companies still using legacy VB6 programs but it is not cross platform. The exe can’t run on Linux or Mac (yet).
 

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It still has a very long way to go before coming anywhere useful and they have decided to use the dreadful subscription model, which makes it a big no-no for me immediately. Although I was a hardcore fan of VB6 back in the days, I'm not sure I still am and would want to go back. I prefer the new 'B4X' language nowadays: it uses just enough legacy basic syntax, but has given it a very modern twist. It may have some traction for people who want to convert very old VB6 projects without having to go through to much trouble, but for new programmers to get started, it is missing the 'cool' factor IMHO.

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It.Behrooz

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Hello
I recently had the chance to get acquainted with b4x (from a month ago) and migrate to this tool from Android Studio.
At first I thought ‌ B4X IDE was developed with "Java" but later I realized that it was developed with "C#".
This choice had a specific reason or it was just a choice.
Given that "Erel" was familiar with Java capabilities, was "Java" not appropriate because of its cross-platform nature?
 

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Your question has nothing to do with this thread.
It.Behrooz said:
Given that "Erel" was familiar with Java capabilities, was "Java" not appropriate because of its cross-platform nature?
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1. Historic reasons - B4A "grew" from the .Net based Basic4ppc.
2. Dependencies on important third party libraries.
 

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aeric said:
Good news for companies still using legacy VB6 programs but it is not cross platform. The exe can’t run on Linux or Mac (yet).
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Actually that part is coming up soon. In a few months the IDE which is based on VS Code and twinBasic compiled executable will be cross platform.

The product is being build at feverish pitch so we will have to give it some time.
 

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alwaysbusy said:
It still has a very long way to go before coming anywhere useful and they have decided to use the dreadful subscription model, which makes it a big no-no for me immediately.
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Actually the subscription model is what I also detest. But compiling Windows application in 32Bit executable is free!
 

rraswisak

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Believe me, now I'm on process renewing my 17 years old client app made by me earlier. It use VB6 as the client already comfort with how app work. Different thing now is i include B4A project for order taking which salesman can input/make order in place at that time, and the admin in backend can process the order in realtime without re-typing the item details. The client seem happy with this new feature.
 

Magma

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I am in progress (from 2013) to switch all my old vb-programs to B4X... I have future... hope to live 200years more...

Still updating some software at vb because no time re-writing some code... but the reason I think it is because times change/want to change UI/want to change Databases and give more options and better security to end user... when i am switching to B4X

+The way I was thinking now changed.... B4X made me think different... Now I am using a perfect product -> i want perfection at my solutions
 
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