A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

(wieslawsoltes.github.io)

51 points by wiso5 hours ago

12 comments

  • pcdoodle117 minutes ago
    Awesome! If only we could publish the programs as a PWA :)
  • sijmen2 hours ago
    Slick! Thanks for bringing back some memories of how i got into programming; by automating math-homework in visual basic.
  • broast27 minutes ago
    This is amazing
  • vunderba4 hours ago
    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.
  • diavelguru36 minutes ago
    talk about a blast from the past!
  • orthodonticjake1 hour ago
    easy way to trigger an Epic developer
    • Onavo1 hour ago
      Wait Epic as in the medical software is written in VB6‽
      • roywiggins22 minutes ago
        The GUI parts are or were.<p>And parts of their <i>patient portal website</i> were still VB6 on the backend a decade ago, not sure that&#x27;s true anymore. Visual Basic 6 <i>as a web backend</i>.
        • SoftTalker16 minutes ago
          VB was the backend language for the vast majority of original Active Server Pages sites.
  • truetraveller58 minutes ago
    Was this done with an LLM? Repo?
    • ranger_danger40 minutes ago
      Their github account lists over 5,000 commits and 1,500 pull requests... just in the last 4 days.
      • tech234a25 minutes ago
        Yes, if you look at the developer&#x27;s Twitter account they&#x27;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. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;wieslawsoltes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;wieslawsoltes</a>
  • Onavo1 hour ago
    How does it compare with<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42105869">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42105869</a>
  • hagbard_c1 hour ago
    The speed with which this thing launches <i>in a browser</i> 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 <i>and &#x27;recent&#x27;</i> 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 &#x27;perfect&#x27; 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.
    • hyperhello47 minutes ago
      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.
  • Sarkie1 hour ago
    Intellisense?<p>Was that there?
    • nvme0n1p11 hour ago
      What do you mean?<p>Does the site have intellisense? Yes<p>Did VB6 have intellisense? Also yes
  • mkrishnan4 hours ago
    Wow. very nice, it even runs the app
  • 486sx331 hour ago
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