Divshot Launches In Public Beta, Helping Developers Turn Mockups Into Code

I've often wondered why no one has made a true competitor to Visual Basic (and VB.NET). This is a true rapid-development language; all of the UI code is written for you based on the drag and drop. Everything is straightforward, and many things can be tweaked just using the UI designer interface. The language is powerful (it's C# with a different syntax) yet incredibly simple.

Better yet, I've often wondered why no one has made something better than VB.NET; why no one has made a Visual Basic that, instead of compiling to the CLR, compiled to Ruby or Javascript or some other common web language. This would leapfrog Visual Basic in so many ways. Some have tried, including Microsoft, but it's just not the same.

From the Tech Crunch description, this might be it (though I remain cautiously optimistic). I'm looking forward to what they can do with it, and better yet, what I can do with it.

Great service.

The code generated out of Divshot really is very clean, with about zero regret for dropping it into an app.

They're iterating like mad and adding new features daily, out in public ( http://divshot.com/changelog ).

I can't wait for the targeting of this for tablets, so I can replace my wireframing and mockup tools there.

Looked at their product and it seemed cool but very limited in its functionality, so I went to the internets and found jetstrap which looks much better http://www.jetstrap.com/

I've played around with their beta, and it's legit. Definitely much faster than taking twitter bootstrap and hand hacking it. (Full disclosure, I'm CEO of another launchpad company)