Visual Basic 6
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6recommend
1warn against
Dec 4, 2025first mention
May 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I really enjoyed working on it”
former VB6 developer, left in 2007on “What did you love about VB6?”
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“One of the programs I enjoyed writing the most with VB6”
“I loved how you can 'paint' controls, and it generates functions for you to fill in based on events.”
“I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6.”
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VB.NET is open source, supports AOT, and there is little else that VB 6 does better, other than COM integration, which .NET was always a bit lower level https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn Now I bet what you mean is the graphical part, and yes that is only partial open source.
“That debugger was amazing.”
“I really enjoyed working on it”
“One of the programs I enjoyed writing the most with VB6”
“I loved how you can 'paint' controls, and it generates functions for you to fill in based on events.”
“I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6.”
“allowed drag and drop GUI application development”