David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) on nostr

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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Reminder: the sudden nostalgia for VB (and Flash) is not because VB was good, it’s because VB was:

Better than most other things available at the time for rapid application development.
Impressive compared to the abilities of the hardware it ran on.
Better than most things that came after it for low-effort software development.

We don’t need resurrected VB or Flash, we need something that takes advantage of the power of modern computers to deliver something that has the same ease of use of these tools.

Frederik Braun � · 1w

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Elosha · 1w

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The Seven Voyages Of Steve · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqncxka2nmkqkndk4wkuf3tz3l39z9m8xax3aen3h8tvudwgjmf5mq4uv2v2 Delphi is always chronically overlooked. I never got to use it much, VB was more common at work in the late 90’s, but Delphi took everything VB did but made it a lot more powerful