When I was younger, I HATED VB6. Even today, I still loathe some of the weird apps that I had to support running in Excel with VBA. I truly never thought about the power of VB until I read this article - those apps I loathed so much probably wouldn't have existed if it weren't for VB. I ran into so many tools that provided immediate value and go things done, even if it was dodgy or weird.

Even though I'm a Platform Engineer these days, I hate the tooling that we have to do deal with today. Instead of having people build solutions, we all need to understand hundreds (if not thousands) of cloud/vendor-specific APIs. The actual solution itself is almost a by-product of the job of getting in run in the cloud.

Maybe don't bring back VB, but a world where we can deliver solutions quickly and effectively without spending hours debugging dependency issues between releases.