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I always felt it’s really strange that making a quick and dirty GUI application is still easier with Visual Basic 4.0 (circa 1995) than with most any modern tool.

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I'd like to see what you think of https://anvil.works

It's deliberately built in the Delphi/Visual Basic tradition, and trying to carry those virtues onto the modern web.

interesting, thanks for the tip!

VB4 was also able to produce both 16 bit and 32 bit binaries. That was a big help for the Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 transition.

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