Comment by dachris
7 hours ago
Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked.
So simple, so easy. Those were the days.
7 hours ago
Started the Visual Basic dev env, added a button to the form, MsgBox "Hello World", and it worked.
So simple, so easy. Those were the days.
Well, MessageBox() in the Win32 API is just a simple C function call: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...
I wrote a blog about this many years ago: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/simple-windows-dial...
You can still have that experience with VB.NET, C#, Delphi, FreePascal, Gambas, Xojo and C++ Builder.
Instead folks go with Electron crap.
TCL/Tk too, albeit being far less intuitive than Lazarus+FreePascal. Altough it has far less code, so it's a draw on difficulty. The average Joe would just spend time measuring the sizes of the frames and that's it.
In a sense yeah, but as far as I remember it never had a good UI designer.