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Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by tombert »

impendingchange wrote: post #14
tombert wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't meant to be a passive aggressive dig, but a genuine question...why make an VB.NET IDE? I think it's cool that you did it, it's just not a language that I've seen get a lot of love.

VB.NET's verbose syntax actually makes it PERFECT for AI assistance. And it is being developed with full AI integration. And, Linux lacks any such tools. Not even VS Code has a plugin for VB.

I didn’t realize that VS Code didn’t have any VB support.

I think it’s cool you built this. While I don’t think I will personally use this as all I do is more infrastructure stuff now, this still seems like a pretty project and I wish you all the best.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by pjmlp »

dartharva wrote: post #52
pjmlp wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have it on VB.NET with Forms, though.

Never tried it, does VB.NET give the same instant familiarity allowing you to whip up tiny GUI apps quickly and without hassle?

Yes, with Windows Forms.

In the beginning, many VB devs were irritated, because VB.NET 1.0 was mostly C# with VB syntax, however eventually Microsoft added back many of the previous capabilities, like the Me object, REPL, and so on.

However nowadays the language is considered done, and they are only updating it to keep up with specific .NET features for interop with C#.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by bluejfan »

armchairhacker wrote: post #19

I think development environments are an undervalued field (perhaps because people hate writing UI). Tiny open-source IDEs are a great learning tool and can be starters for research IDEs (whereas VSCode, while more practical for production IDEs, has complexity that gets in the way of experimentation). Another tiny open-source IDE (for Java) is https://github.com/bobbylight/RText

Also check out BlueJ https://www.bluej.org/. It's a simple IDE targeted for students learning Java.

BlueJ is Zen-simple but surprisingly usable for real work. If I could have only one IDE and had to choose between minimal and bloated, I'd pick minimal every time.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange »

impendingchange wrote: post #40
bflesch wrote: post #30

Sorry for the stupid question, but would this IDE be a good place to create VB.net GUI apps for Windows 11? I've been looking into "best" ways of creating Windows GUI apps from Linux and apart from C/Cpp with native Windows APIs most options seem to focus on React Native and web technologies. Is SimpleIDE a valid option for this? Does it spit out an .exe file that I can run on a vanilla Windows 11 installation?

No, I'm sorry, SimpleIDE was designed specifically for targeting Linux.

However, the guys on the Discord Visual Basic server have managed to spin it up on WSL.

https://discord.gg/Y8EH5fF6WG

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by DarmokJalad1701 »

bluejfan wrote: post #54
armchairhacker wrote: post #19

I think development environments are an undervalued field (perhaps because people hate writing UI). Tiny open-source IDEs are a great learning tool and can be starters for research IDEs (whereas VSCode, while more practical for production IDEs, has complexity that gets in the way of experimentation). Another tiny open-source IDE (for Java) is https://github.com/bobbylight/RText

Also check out BlueJ https://www.bluej.org/ . It's a simple IDE targeted for students learning Java. BlueJ is Zen-simple but surprisingly usable for real work. If I could have only one IDE and had to choose between minimal and bloated, I'd pick minimal every time.

That's a blast from the past - We used BlueJ in high school ~20 years ago!
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