FoxPro
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Feb 4, 2026first mention
Sep 23, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There's been a 64 bit version of FoxPro for years and years”
“where the original FoxPro/dBase/xBase scripting language is used (because it was great!)”
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“A good example of the actual tool is FoxPro and similar”
“I cut my teeth on FoxPro 2.6 for DOS. You could really get things done in that environment.”
“I started with Foxpro 2.6 and it was a blast.”
Caveats and dissent
“Instead of FoxPro dev work being simple, it's complex!”
worked on FoxPro and VB apps in the paston “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxP…”
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Threads where it came up
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Data: foxpro.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“There's been a 64 bit version of FoxPro for years and years”
“Instead of FoxPro dev work being simple, it's complex!”
“where the original FoxPro/dBase/xBase scripting language is used (because it was great!)”
“Sometimes, you just need the stuff to keep working, with $20-and-a-roll-of-duct-tape-level budgets.”
“A good example of the actual tool is FoxPro and similar”
“I cut my teeth on FoxPro 2.6 for DOS. You could really get things done in that environment.”
“I started with Foxpro 2.6 and it was a blast.”
“later FoxPro on an IBM AT”
“Check the dBase/FoxPro family. My nostalgia remember it fondly”
“In the 1990s there were people who thought OOP with point and click tools like FoxPro and Delphi”