i loved VB6 (our school intro programming class used it) and i sometimes wonder how much influence that had on my future career choices. It was a programming environment that felt fun, powerful and not scary at all
Totally agree!
IMO VB.NET was just disappointing - tried too hard to turn VB into something 'proper' with 'better standards' rather than just being what it was (the YOLO language that you could build scrappy things in fast)
In more ways than one, I've been told.
What are the other ways?
On error resume next /jk
Some of the things I liked about VB6 that are not widely done well today, IMO, are (A) the RAD GUI builder (B) small, native binaries (C) deeply integrated, language-agnostic RPC framework