No troll. What are the (legitimate) reasons people are still using VB6 ?

[DEXWERX]

What are you suggesting? I agree with NSA, as I did go back to the VB6 IDE and found it painful, and I suppose it was about 12 years ago, too. So, are you suggesting that we've forgotten, or are you saying that it has improved since then?

No. I'm saying it adds nothing to the discussion, to point out that you can't think of something VB6 does better than VS, when you haven't used VB in over a decade. You're used to the flaws and have become dependent on the features of VS - so yes, it's going to be painful using something you've long ago lost expertise in. I can assure you though - especially with newer versions of VS, that going from an IDE as fast as VB6 to VS is just as painful. I think I only keep newer versions of VS for the updated C/C++ platform headers.

(FYI I also prefer VS2010, but only because 2005/2008 couldn't target x64)

I do like where VS Code has gone though. It's finally fast enough, that it's my primary text editor.


food for thought:

“Ever since Longhorn the Windows team has had an extremely bitter attitude towards .NET. I don’t think its completely fair as they essentially went all in on a brand new technology and .NET has done a lot of evolving since then but nonetheless that sentiment remains among some of the now top players in Microsoft. So effectively there is a sentiment that some of the largest disasters in Microsoft history (IE’s fall from grace and multiple “bad” versions of Windows) are, essentially, totally the fault of gambling on .NET and losing (from their perspective). “