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Was there an actual point or are you just being contrarian for the sake of it?
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I have no issue with Twitter's values or ownership. The website is just annoying and laggy, so I appreciate a readonly mirror.
You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
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#12Would've thought the explosion of web apps would kick MS and Apple in the pants, but here we are. Native dev is still annoying and is arguably getting harder. There's no reason making an app work for just one specific platform should have more friction than doing it for all of them.
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#13Take a look at Slint or Avalonia if you miss this experience.
And I'll take needing an internet connection over having to install Visual Basic from a stack of CDs.
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#15I remember that not having the right VB DLL was a frequent issue when trying to run EXE files produced by people with visual basic. For me, this Windows "nocode" environment was a big gatekeeper which hindered me in learning programming. It may sound a bit sentimental, but I learned C with Linux, because docs where readily available and open. I literally read man pages. Today the tooling is just better. Just think, f…
I remember not being able to get my C++ compiler to work on Windows and I remember struggling to get basic Linux functionality working. Software was hard back then.
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#17There was a time when there were some VB clone languages including
Envelop Basic: https://members.tripod.com/joe__shmoe/indext.htm
These tools did a pretty good job of creating forms and software.
Rebol was another language that was sleek at making UI Form:
https://www.rebol.com/index-lang.html
Now a days, you need to master many technologies to create one
UI component. Too much bloat.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was there an actual point or are you just being contrarian for the sake of it?
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Did I say anything about morals or compromise or anything? Now you're just ranting to the void about a straw man, not furthering conversation in any way. I think you're the only one who needs to get over something here: the fact that people might not want to visit a certain website. The shock and horror! Take your negativity elsewhere.
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#19I used PureBasic back in like 2003 or 2004. It was super simple. Looks like it's still around and the site looks unchanged since then. Probably crazy fast on modern hardware
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#20Someone replied to that post "notice how fast everything is to launch", but did Visual Basic really start up that fast back in the day? I'm old enough to have used XP as a kid, and I remember the languorous boot times, but I never programmed on it. My guess is that XP is running in a VM on modern hardware in this GIF.