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It's the year 2020 and I'm still out here writing JSP, PL/SQL, and VB6 lmfao

I've actually been wanting to do a video series on using VB6 to build a modern web application. It would have a Windows Form GUI obviously.

A company I used to work for did an acquisition where the company being acquired had written their own web server in VB6. I never did find out why...

Wtf how is more important than why actually LOL. The why probably involves consultants and a lot of powerpoint

I found this [0] suspicious-looking source code from 2002 that may be able to give some answers.

[0] https://www.developerfusion.com/code/2184/dm-web-server/

You should play with a language like Go or Python and get that rush of modernity

Idk why but I just really like javascript. I am not the type of person that likes to optimize things or make a deeply viable and robust and performant output. I just like to tinker and have as many things as possible abstracted away from me so I can make stupid apps based on maps and if statements so that they can do stupid things in a matter of 20 mins.

Please tell me this is a joke.

I know of at least two insurance companies in my country that still have their administrative software written in VB6 (probably along with some shoddy web app for IE8).

Also see "IT runs on Java 8" https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/

There are two phases of a technology: the adoption for new projects phase, and the legacy phase. In the first phase, new projects dominate the programming activity in the technology. In the second phase, maintenance and improvement of already existing codebases dominates the activity. Technologies like jsp are in that second phase.

Wish it was! My life is full of Dim iX As Integer and CURSOR AS right now and it's pretty gross. But it's better than writing css or react at least.

um no it's not

Can't we agree that they're both just awful?

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