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.
sijmen•1h ago
Slick! Thanks for bringing back some memories of how i got into programming; by automating math-homework in visual basic.
orthodonticjake•1h ago
easy way to trigger an Epic developer
Onavo•37m ago
Wait Epic as in the medical software is written in VB6‽
Sarkie•1h ago
Intellisense?
Was that there?
nvme0n1p1•41m ago
What do you mean?
Does the site have intellisense? Yes
Did VB6 have intellisense? Also yes
hagbard_c•1h ago
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•15m 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.
mkrishnan•3h ago