Visual Basic
Rapid Application Development (RAD) for desktop applications, Early introduction to programming in an educational setting
It's a legacy tool once praised for fast desktop app development but is now outdated for new projects.
Modern, long-term development projects where users seek newer tools and updated licenses
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“gave me back the giddy excitement I had learning Visual Basic as a kid”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-26
“When I started coding it was with BASIC and Visual Basic 3. What a joy!”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-05-05
“all are wonderful as is old-fashioned x-Windows GUI programming and Visual Basic form development”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-16
“I don't remember syntax or linting or typos being a problem since I was in high school doing Turbo Pascal or Visual Basic”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-14
“I started with Visual Basic 6 and I still haven't seen GUIs improve since then”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-29
“the world of Visual Basic appeared. It was like peeking behind the curtain. "Is this how they do it!?"”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-01
“windows was arguably more friendly for casual developers than Linux with things like Visual Basic and Delphi”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-23
“It was really easy to de-compile the Visual Basic 3 software”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-05
“surprisingly productive language combined with Visual Studio”
MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-03
“coming from Perl, PHP, and Visual Basic, I taught myself Javascript and React over the course of a few weeks. Once I got over the initial learning curve, it was an incredible improvement over the old ways”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2024-09-13
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