A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

mkrishnan

Wow. very nice, it even runs the app

vunderba

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

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

orthodonticjake

easy way to trigger an Epic developer

Sarkie

Intellisense? Was that there?

hagbard_c

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.

Onavo

How does it compare with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105869

truetraveller

Was this done with an LLM? Repo?

diavelguru

talk about a blast from the past!

broast

This is amazing

pcdoodle1

Awesome! If only we could publish the programs as a PWA :)

imnotr0b0t

Wow, that's great. It brings back so many memories

egonschiele

This takes me back! Right clicking works too, this is awesome. I miss property tables, that was a nice UX. Flash had it too.

bitwize

OK, so I followed through to the author's GitHub page and the project's repository and... no CLAUDE.md, no AGENTS.md, no SKILL.md, no .claude or .agents directories either. Dare we dream? A project this ambitious, done without AI help? I'm getting that feeling like when I see a piece of really well done art come across my feed—and it was done entirely by a human !

Kuyawa

Oooh beautiful! Visual Foxpro was the same, only the language changed but their screen designers were almost identical

dkga

My first <del>love</del>IDE…

Dwedit

Best part of VB5 was that when you hit F1, you instantly got help for whatever was under the cursor. VB6 changed it to use some much slower MSDN help system instead.

Narishma

These kinds of browser recreations of old native apps always fails at text rendering.

wiradikusuma

Debugging and IntelliSense don't work, and the deliverable isn't a .exe but an .html (though it works). Wondering if it can access ODBC lol.

vjvjvjvjghv

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.