Visual Basic
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Oct 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“VB the ide was really good but VB the language was not”
“none was as productive as VB for simple apps”
Caveats and dissent
“Classic VB was "simple" but every project at each company had a different hodge podge of 3rd-party VBX/OCX add-on controls”
worked on FoxPro and VB apps in the paston “Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxP…”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4) 1 mention
- Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived 1 mention
- What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? – by Julio Merino 1 mention
- I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up 1 mention
- AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs 1 mention
- Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding 1 mention
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 6
“Delphi and VB were quite comparable.”
“Classic VB was "simple" but every project at each company had a different hodge podge of 3rd-party VBX/OCX add-on controls”
“VB the ide was really good but VB the language was not”
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“Nope, it was solved with Visual Basic in 1991.”
“none was as productive as VB for simple apps”