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1. pjmlp · 1791101575 · focus · HN ↗

   Xojo, Mikroe BASIC, VBA, and VB.NET are still around even if they don't make HN headlines.

   1. JdeBP · 1791114248 · focus · HN ↗

      The interesting thing would be if someone made a lookalike for Visual BASIC for DOS (not Windows) that ran as a standalone EFI application.

      That is the real 'what if it had not gone out of fashion' path. VB/DOS definitely went out of fashion. GUI BASICs became fashionable, instead. Everyone who does a 'visual' BASIC nowadays does a GUI one.

      The headlined BASIC is nothing like a VB/DOS for EFI, though.

      1. vunderba · 1791129045 · focus · HN ↗

         Nice to see another VB/DOS aficionado! One of my first summer jobs that didn’t involve landscaping as a teenager was porting a CAD-based application from VB/DOS to Visual Basic 6 so it could run natively on Win9x machines.

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