A veteran developer asks: What did VB6 get right that modern .NET developers miss?
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Summary
The author, a veteran developer who shipped hundreds of VB3-through-VB6 line-of-business systems between 1995 and 2010, poses two open questions to the programming community: what did Visual Basic 6 get right that modern .NET developers miss, and what frustrations does the modern toolchain introduce that VB6 didn't? The piece is a reflective call for institutional memory before it fades, seeking honest comparison between the rapid-application-development era of VB6 and the complexity of today's C#/.NET ecosystem.
Key quotes
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What do you find frustrating about the modern toolchain that VB6 didn't make you fight?
I'm trying to get to the root of what was actually good before too much of the institutional memory leaves the room.
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