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For the Web have a look at OutSystems for example, it doesn't come as free beer though.

Debugging in .NET is just as it used to be on VB6, not sure what you would still be missing from those days.

As for breaking the GUI, it wasn't as if frm files were foolproof.

If I recall correctly, you could write new code during debugging sessions, move the pointer to it and run it. Very dynamic. We can now do some of these things in VS or other tools with .Net, however VB was much more powerful in this regard. I can only recall there being one statement that required a rebuild - was it CreateObject or similar?

VS has been offering that since at least 2015 version, and improving on it since then.

Indeed, it's come along way and I'm not knocking it.

Point is thought this was there out the box with VB.

Agreed, at least they eventually added it back, even the Me like objects.

You can do the same thing in many languages derived from LISP, but supporting all that runtime monkey patching requires having dynamic indirections everywhere which add a ton of overhead.

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