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A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

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  1. orthodonticjake · · focus · HN ↗
    easy way to trigger an Epic developer
    1. Onavo · · focus · HN ↗
      Wait Epic as in the medical software is written in VB6‽
      1. roywiggins · · focus · HN ↗
        The GUI parts are or were.

        And parts of their patient portal website were still VB6 on the backend a decade ago, not sure that's true anymore. Visual Basic 6 as a web backend.

        1. SoftTalker · · focus · HN ↗
          VB was the backend language for the vast majority of original Active Server Pages sites.
          1. zdimension · · focus · HN ↗
            My memory may fail me, but I'm pretty sure ASP used VBScript, not regular VB. Similar syntax but not the same runtime/environment. ASP could use any Active Scripting language (the other language shipped with Windows being JScript, MS's impl of a subset of JS)
            1. EvanAnderson · · focus · HN ↗
              You're correct. I did a ton of ASP in JScript back in the day, but VBScript was much more common.
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