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A browser-native reimplementation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE, allowing developers to build and run VB6-style applications directly in the web browser without native Windows tooling. It represents an impressive retro-computing preservation and web platform porting effort.
A retrospective on the rise and fall of Visual Basic on Windows 3.1, exploring Bill Gates' ambition and Microsoft's dominance in the personal computing landscape.
The author announces the launch of a long-form history of Visual Basic, with Chapter 1 covering the origins of BASIC and the development of VB 1.0.