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A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

224 points · 72 comments · wiso

  1. vjvjvjvjghv · · focus · HN ↗
    Wow, this feels almost like the real thing.

    Is there something similar for the web now? Easy UI editor but a fully featured language behind with direct database access.

    1. 2001zhaozhao · · focus · HN ↗
      For what it's worth, I'm thinking of some version of this for my upcoming game's modding tools, although the backend processing will be on a web server unlike this demo, and there is much more of an AI agent focus.
    2. meredydd · · focus · HN ↗
      This is pretty much exactly <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anvil.works" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;anvil.works (I&#x27;m a founder). The full-featured language is Python (both server and client side).

      There are a bunch of escape hatches if you want to get to the lower level platform (eg use JS libraries, or express a particular piece of styling in HTML+CSS), but the core experience is very VB-like: drag, drop, edit properties, run code on events.

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