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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

487 points · 270 comments · boredjohnny

  1. zero_shift · · focus · HN ↗
    Give the fact this project sprung out of nowhere an hour ago, has one commit and no obvious history beyond that - I must ask, was this vibe-coded?
    1. roywiggins · · focus · HN ↗
      The website is obviously and gratingly LLM-voiced. I don't know how people aren't tired of paragraphs like this yet:

      "Visual FoxPro is a 32-bit program, and that decides more than it appears to. It is why a table stops at two gigabytes, why a memo file stops at two gigabytes, and why a big report runs out of memory on a machine with plenty to spare. The limits are signed 32-bit numbers buried in the file handling, not a licensing decision anybody made."

      and

      "The editor checks what you type through that very compiler, so what it underlines and what the runtime refuses cannot drift apart."

      Like, what? Who talks like that?

      1. DANmode · · focus · HN ↗
        Robots (by default).

        Take the time to ask for anything else.

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