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

[Eduardo-]

a potential VB6-successor only has a future on "something else than Windows",
I'm absolutely convinced about that.

Olaf

If you've read my last post, I am of the idea that the way to go for future apps is WebApps.
Still, even in the "ideal case" where the VB6 successor can compile to a WebApp environment, there will be problems/limitations with that approach since web browsers were not designed for running Apps in mind.
Perhaps in the future web browsers (and HTML5... or HTML6) will evolve to something more WebApp friendly.

Also, sometimes, there is the need to run native Apps. In that case IMO the need is mainly for Android and iPhone.
I only had one case of an user that wanted to run a program of mine on Linux.

So, to work another decade to make some -limited anyway- kind of VB like environment that can compile to Linux... I don't know if it is a good investment.
If the idea is to do it for fun, then yes it will be a well invested time of course.

Or.. may be I'm completely wrong and Linux is the OS of the future, that everybody will be using in some years.
It might be, it is not too crazy to believe that, but it is not what it seems today.
It only would take that some foundation like Mozilla create a Linux version that could be a good job in most of the tasks that Windows does, and to be easy to install and easy to use.
The Linux craw today make the things hard to use because they want to feel that they are exclusive. But it would only take some group with another purpose and another ideas.
But enterprises want to make money. How a company would make money doing that? That's perhaps why it didn't happen to this day. Google could do it if they wanted I think.

Who knows. Still the WebApp would run on Linux.