Visual C++ 6
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5recommend
1warn against
Feb 8, 2026first mention
Aug 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“The serial cable debugger feature was a godsend.”
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“Right about VC6 was the sweet spot imo”
“VC++ 6.0 would load, build the project, and have it ready to run”
Caveats and dissent
“Visual C++ 6, for instance, would emit code that was 2/3rds register-to-register moves”
optimized audio/video codecs in the 2000son “SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX”
Threads where it came up
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- SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX 1 mention
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- I Fixed Windows Native Development 1 mention
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“Visual C++ 6, for instance, would emit code that was 2/3rds register-to-register moves”
“The serial cable debugger feature was a godsend.”
“is known among other things for still using visual c++ 6.”
“VC++ was great.”
“The last time I used it in anger to release commercial software”
Turbo Pascal had breakpoints, variable inspections in the late 80s. I think it had stack traces too but not 100% sure. I am not old enough to have used it professionally, but my teacher used it for teaching intro programming in the early 2000s. So I used it quite a lot, the debugger was great and the development loop was so tight. Not until I got into web dev did it ever feel "fast" to make change->see change. To thi
“Right about VC6 was the sweet spot imo”
“VC++ 6.0 would load, build the project, and have it ready to run”
“anyone that plans to use Visual C++ 6.0 with git”
“Visual C++ 6 was the first C(++) compiler I used. I'm fairly certain it had auto completion (Intellisense).”