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Comment by vb6lives | Hacker News Reader

The marketing is all wrong. I've used vb6 for 20+ years. The advantage is that you can get a Windows app running in seconds. But vb6 is tainted by opinions (some right, but mostly wrong). Forget VB. Focus on RAD. Show how easy it is to build a UI. The vb6 ide is unparalleled in modern software. It's shocking how bad things are.

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Wait, what about Lazarus? https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

It's Pascal rather than Basic but otherwise, wouldn't that qualify as a parallel?

Yes, Lazarus is totally awesome, I love it! I have tried to get people in companies to use Lazarus but they wont go near it because it is Pascal. The other problem with Lazarus is that they need to make a one click installer, I saw that put alot of people off

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, you are probably right, to focus on the RAD part. Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or GitHub and we can continue the conversation. Would love to chat

You just have to get rid of the words "visual basic". It has a terrible reputation by the thousands of people who have never used it but like to parrot things they have read online.

Ok, testing with a different headline now to see the response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18975316

I tried it but the hacker news crowd seems to respond more to Visual Basic 6 (see the link I attached). I guess outside of Hacker News people think more of RAD. Thanks for your input :)

I'm sure the hacker news crowd leans more to web apps and mac/*nix. The first headline never mentions "windows".

Ok, thanks, that makes sense as I am a Mac and Linux user myself. I only use Windows as Mac and Linux is virtually non existent in the desktop corporate world in Europe

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