It's great to hear that this project is still going on, ReactOS is quite a milestone in terms of dedication and compatibility.
I should try it in a VM again, maybe I can get my old VB6 IDE running again...
I should try it in a VM again, maybe I can get my old VB6 IDE running again...
It doesn't seem to deal well with the audio and network drivers, though.
I had no luck installing visual studio 6 in my vm. My old copy of borland 5 seems to be installing just fine, though.
Edit: I may have spoken too soon; I had to run bcw.exe manually, and got a message about 16 bit WoW not being supported.
1. Modern .NET for desktop apps, whose many semi-obsolete UI frameworks make Java's UI tools look simple
2. Learning HTML/JS/React/Redux/CSS/Bootstrap/Python/Django/SQL/SQLAlchemy/Webpack...
Neither is likely to appeal to someone used to how easily applications could be created in VB6 or Delphi.
(I believe this so strongly I cofounded https://anvil.works, which is basically VB6/Delphi for the web. That's not so much a disclaimer, I guess, as putting my money where my mouth is :-P)
I don't see how Delphi + VCL is any easier than C# + WinForms, especially given that the latter is a GC language.
Why? Just run delphi 7 so that you at least will have sane exception handling ;)
But on a more serious note I wonder how the lazarus-ide will do on ReactOS.
Mostly for Nostalgia...
During Thanksgiving I talked to my Uncle who gave my family our first computer and also asked him if he remembered giving me his old copy of VB 3.0 to install. We couldn't remember if it was 20-something or 30-something 3.5" floppy disks but I remember feeling really cool being the only person out of my programmer buddies who had a legit VB 3.0 install.