What did you love about VB6?
Key takeaways
- Two open questions for anyone who shipped real work on Visual Basic 6 and is now writing C# against modern .NET.
- I am genuinely trying to understand the answer, in the words of people who lived it, and I want to do it before too much of the institutional memory leaves the room.
- I shipped about a hundred line-of-business systems on VB3, VB4, VB5, and VB6 between roughly 1995 and 2010.
Two open questions for anyone who shipped real work on Visual Basic 6 and is now writing C# against modern .NET. What specifically did VB6 get right that you miss? And what do you find frustrating about the modern toolchain that VB6 didn't make you fight? I shipped about a hundred VB3-through-VB6 line-of-business systems between 1995 and 2010, and I'm trying to get to the root of what was actually good before too much of the institutional memory leaves the room.
Two open questions for anyone who shipped real work on Visual Basic 6 and now writes C# against modern .NET.
I am not asking either as a rhetorical setup. I am genuinely trying to understand the answer, in the words of people who lived it, and I want to do it before too much of the institutional memory leaves the room.