SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:15 PM UTC

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:15 PM UTC

A lightweight, professional VB.NET IDE built with GTK# 3 on Linux using .NET 8.0. SimpleIDE provides a modern development environment specifically designed for VB.NET projects on Linux systems.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by TheCleric » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:40 PM UTC

I truly don’t mean this as an insult, but it always catches me off guard that people are still using VB in 2025.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by herman_toothrot » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:41 PM UTC

The screenshot links are 404ing for me here.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by robertherber » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC

I did learn programming with VB many years ago. It definitely holds some sentimental value for me although I wouldn’t consider using it today.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:53 PM UTC

herman_toothrot wrote: post #4

The screenshot links are 404ing for me here.

Updated. Thx.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by tombert » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:56 PM UTC

Interesting, I didn't actually know that VB.NET ever got ported to Linux with the rest of .NET Core.

Does it still have the drag-n-drop GUI feature to make graphical apps, or is that a strictly Windows thing?

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

robertherber wrote: post #5

I did learn programming with VB many years ago. It definitely holds some sentimental value for me although I wouldn’t consider using it today.

Definitely a great deal of nostalgia for me. Years ago, I had written this project up from scratch and later lost all my source code in an accident.

I learned about vibe coding two months ago and, wow, writing this with Claude has been lots of fun. Almost to the point in the project of having full AI integration in the IDE.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC

tombert wrote: post #7

Interesting, I didn't actually know that VB.NET ever got ported to Linux with the rest of .NET Core. Does it still have the drag-n-drop GUI feature to make graphical apps, or is that a strictly Windows thing?

Well, that would certainly be a stretch goal. Right now its all code.

Re: SimpleIDE

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Post by impendingchange » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 12:02 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #7

Interesting, I didn't actually know that VB.NET ever got ported to Linux with the rest of .NET Core. Does it still have the drag-n-drop GUI feature to make graphical apps, or is that a strictly Windows thing?

And what makes this project significant is there's a lack of VB.NET tools on Linux.

It has been challenging trying to get Gtk 3 widgets to play nice. Finally just rolled my own custom-drawn editor, treeview, and listbox. Going to release them later in a library.