Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
I'd support it if it would make you happy but this is a pipe dream. Their primary focus seems to be grid computing and the VB6 importer is just a little side feature they're thinking about adding to their IDE. I wouldn't expect them to devote considerable effort into making this work as it would come at the expense of their core interests. The platform also seems wrong for your project which according to you, directly interacts with and manipulates hardware. XERO CODER seems to heavily favor database application development rather than being more generalized like VB6 was but I hope for your sake and the sake of others wanting this that I'm wrong. Nonetheless, I get the feeling that if this thing works, you're going to be spending a hell of a lot of time trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

I think you should just stop chasing these pipe dreams and move to something like Delphi. There were other VB6 programmers in your camp that chose this route instead of .Net and they seemed quite please. According to them, Delphi had no run time requirements and it has a native code compiler.
The reason it is a good fit is because their IDE/compiler supports Basic, c++, Pascal, and java. they also use macros to translate keywords from other languages. Their product is written in lazarus, and I believe the use the free pascal compiler.

My reason with sticking with vb6 style language is because I am extremely efficient at it, and the delphi dialect will take some time to get used to. But if the xerocoder thing and vbrichclient stuff does not come through by win9, Lazarus it will be.'

I see this as an opportunity for any start up to become huge. Just the other day I saw a job posting from CHASE for a vb6 developer. I think the amount of users a ide/complier company will gain by supporting vb6 is worth millions if not billions.

good day