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Yeah, the interface builders back then are also unsurpassed to this day. Much as I have my issues with VB as a language, the way you could build a GUI with a GUI was amazing. Better still, it worked back on school computers that of course didn't have any "programming" tools, but did come with MS office and the full VB "experience" installed for some reason.
Just curious, what is preventing people from creating something similar to VB6 and Delphi in modern days? Different underlying frameworks? But I'm sure VB6 still sort of works on Windows 10 (VBA).
Problem is, the multitude of platforms, screen sizes, capability sets etc. that we must support in practice make a very compelling case for a unified runtime, which ended up being the current web tech turducken clusterfuck we have today.
If the CPUs were slower, hovewer... one can only wish.