20 points wiso 4 hours ago 6 comments

mkrishnan 3 hours ago | parent

Wow. very nice, it even runs the app

vunderba 2 hours ago | parent

Nice job - definitely consider implementing at least a little bit of the Win32 API layer! For kicks I tried importing an old highschool VB6 map editor at it which uses BitBlt but sadly it didn't work.

sijmen 48 minutes ago | parent

Slick! Thanks for bringing back some memories of how i got into programming; by automating math-homework in visual basic.

orthodonticjake 32 minutes ago | parent

easy way to trigger an Epic developer

Sarkie 24 minutes ago | parent

Intellisense?

Was that there?

hagbard_c 16 minutes ago | parent

The speed with which this thing launches in a browser should put shame on the faces of current IDE developers. While VB itself was nothing to write home about there certainly was something lost when hardware became more powerful. Imagine what current and 'recent' hardware were capable of if only efficiency was taken seriously again. Maybe generative AI can provide a boost where human developers would rather spend their time on chasing the latest fads, adding yet another feature or inversely removing even more functionality in an attempt to create the 'perfect' sparse application? Let the humans think up the features and write the initial implementation, then loosen the bots on the code to make it run as efficiently as possible on hardware which used to be current a few generations back.