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• Narishma
  These kinds of browser recreations of old native apps always fails at text rendering.
• sijmen
  Slick! Thanks for bringing back some memories of how i got into programming; by automating math-homework in visual basic.
• Dwedit
  Best part of VB5 was that when you hit F1, you instantly got help for whatever was under the cursor. VB6 changed it to use some much slower MSDN help system instead.
• Kuyawa
  Oooh beautiful! Visual Foxpro was the same, only the language changed but their screen designers were almost identical
• egonschiele
  This takes me back! Right clicking works too, this is awesome. I miss property tables, that was a nice UX. Flash had it too.
• vunderba
  Nice job - definitely consider implementing at least a little bit of the Win32 API layer! For kicks I tried importing an old highschool VB6 map editor at it which uses BitBlt but sadly it didn't work.
• dkga
  My first <del>love</del>IDE…
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  pcdoodle1
  Awesome! If only we could publish the programs as a PWA :)
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  hagbard_c
  The speed with which this thing launches in a browser should put shame on the faces of current IDE developers. While VB itself was nothing to write home about there certainly was something lost when hardware became more powerful. Imagine what current and 'recent' hardware were capable of if only efficiency was taken seriously again. Maybe generative AI can provide a boost where human developers would rather spend their time on chasing the latest fads, adding yet another feature or inversely removing even more functionality in an attempt to create the 'perfect' sparse application? Let the humans think up the features and write the initial implementation, then loosen the bots on the code to make it run as efficiently as possible on hardware which used to be current a few generations back.
• imnotr0b0t
  Wow, that's great. It brings back so many memories
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  orthodonticjake
  easy way to trigger an Epic developer
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  Onavo
  How does it compare withhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42105869
• broast
  This is amazing
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  bitwize
  OK, so I followed through to the author's GitHub page and the project's repository and...no CLAUDE.md, no AGENTS.md, no SKILL.md, no .claude or .agents directories either.Dare we dream? A project this ambitious, done without AI help? I'm getting that feeling like when I see a piece of really well done art come across my feed—and it was done entirely by a human!
• diavelguru
  talk about a blast from the past!
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  truetraveller
  Was this done with an LLM? Repo?
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  Sarkie
  Intellisense?Was that there?
• mkrishnan
  Wow. very nice, it even runs the app
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