top | item 34035245 (no title) bernardv | 3 years ago Yep, Visual Basic was very much under-appreciated. That, combined with a great IDE, Visual Forms, and a very decent compiler. Then .Net came and ruined a good thing. discuss order hn newest anta40|3 years ago VB 6 was my 1st exposure for desktop programming (MSVC was harder). Then I met Delphi 6, and Lazarus.These days, when I want to build cross platform desktop apps quickly, Lazarus is #1 choice.P.S: I don't write desktop apps profesionally anymore, used to write a few in Java Swing and FX. pjmlp|3 years ago When WinRT got released, I thought, they finally did it the right way.AOT compilation, with managed languages on top of COM, in a sense bringing back VB 6, and an approximation of C++ Builder.Then management messed it all up.
anta40|3 years ago VB 6 was my 1st exposure for desktop programming (MSVC was harder). Then I met Delphi 6, and Lazarus.These days, when I want to build cross platform desktop apps quickly, Lazarus is #1 choice.P.S: I don't write desktop apps profesionally anymore, used to write a few in Java Swing and FX.
pjmlp|3 years ago When WinRT got released, I thought, they finally did it the right way.AOT compilation, with managed languages on top of COM, in a sense bringing back VB 6, and an approximation of C++ Builder.Then management messed it all up.
anta40|3 years ago
These days, when I want to build cross platform desktop apps quickly, Lazarus is #1 choice.
P.S: I don't write desktop apps profesionally anymore, used to write a few in Java Swing and FX.
pjmlp|3 years ago
AOT compilation, with managed languages on top of COM, in a sense bringing back VB 6, and an approximation of C++ Builder.
Then management messed it all up.