{"id":216,"date":"2007-05-11T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-05-11T12:45:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T11:45:42","slug":"developers-still-miss-vb6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/216-developers-still-miss-vb6.html","title":{"rendered":"Developers still miss VB6"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece on why Visual Basic 6 was frozen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The topic is still of interest, and some reason reddit.com<\/a> picked this link up recently, so the article has thousands of new readers.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, it proves that developers still miss the old Visual Basic. Perhaps not so surprising; as I pointed out, it once had a reasonable claim to be the most popular programming language. That would not be true now; C# seems to be more popular than VB.NET, certainly among professionals, and I suspect Java is the number one overall (though these things are hard to measure intelligently).<\/p>\n

Would I write the same article today? More or less, though the arrival of Vista and Office 2007 would make me state more forcibly that neither COM nor the Win32 API is dead. I still think that maintaining old-style VB would not have been feasible for Microsoft, except like FoxPro as a legacy thing and sadly now a dead end.<\/p>\n

It’s also worth noting that VBA lives on, even though Microsoft is focusing on VSTO<\/a> in its place. Except on the Mac, which is another story.<\/p>\n

PS: I’ve fixed the comment feature on the article, so you can now have your say.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: vb6<\/a>, c#<\/a>, java<\/a>, programming<\/a>, com<\/a>, win32<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece on why Visual Basic 6 was frozen. The topic is still of interest, and some reason reddit.com picked this link up recently, so the article has thousands of new readers. If nothing else, it proves that developers still miss the old Visual Basic. Perhaps not so … Continue reading Developers still miss VB6<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-development","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}