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Someone 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.
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I mean...at least for GTK on Linux, you still can? It won't be 10 seconds (probably closer to 30-40 seconds) since you have to go through a couple of prompts to name it, decide a license, etc., but with: https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/ You can do the same thing. In fact, this was the exact method I used to make a few GTK apps.
Someone 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.
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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.
So many have that it's an obvious deduction, and the bit 'subjecting yourself to "X"' alludes to the same.
Do you rather claim that X's UX is uniquely horrible than an alternative link was needed for those that can't bear it? If so, well...
Anyways, I just said we can handle the original link just fine. You asked for further clarification.
I 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…
If you did it in Delphi it will work no matter what.
It was very common for Delphi programs to use stuff that required external DLLs.
I was able to load up a VB6 project I worked on in high school and it compiled and ran with no changes. Pretty neat.