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A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# with Avalonia

14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 12 comments · first 2024-11-11 · latest 2025-02-28

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  1. …Visual Basic 6 compiled to WebAssembly https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ and source https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 And a Solitaire demo https://solitaire.xaml.live/ and source…
    comment by zfg · 2025-02-28 · in WASM Wayland Web (WWW)
  2. …a Visual Basic 6 clone written in C# in my browser? https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 WebAssembly brings all languages to the browser and that's a good thing. I can write…
    comment by zfg · 2025-02-12 · in WASM will replace containers
  3. …written with Avalonia and compiled to WebAssembly: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
  4. …sees your analogy and raises you an implementation: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
    comment by peutetre · 2024-12-05 · in JavaScript is 29 years old today
  5. …written in C# and compiled to WebAssembly does: - https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ - https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 > vague "JavaScript limitations" It's not vague. Despite 28 years of effort optimizing…
    comment by peutetre · 2024-12-01 · in If not React, then what?
  6. …bare minimum to have a nice demo. For example only 2 functions are supported: MsgBox and InputBox: https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/blob/383a005... Still it is impressive to create something complex like this in a matter of…
    comment by 0xmarcin · 2024-11-15 · in Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
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    Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
    story by porterde · 2024-11-14 · 176 comments
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    Visual Basic 6, in the browser, written in C# with Avalonia
    story by SBArbeit · 2024-11-12 · 1 comment
  9. It runs on Mac and Linux! https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 It even supports dotnet's NativeAOT, meaning you can get a native x64/arm64 binary!
  10. …Android. You can also compile it to WebAssembly, which is what has been done here for this demo: https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 WebAssembly brings all languages to the web and this is a nice example of the power of wasm.
  11. This is an application built on Avalonia. You can compile it into a desktop application if you want ( https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 ), but because of the framework you get the web version for free. Seems rather ridiculous…
  12. …linux, osx), mobile (android or ios) AND browser (using wasm) with almost the same codebase. check https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 , and feel free to try the desktop ones.
  13. …version if you wanted, although the author doesn't package one explicitly https://avaloniaui.net/ https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6
  14. …done, now a Delphi and I can finally be happy about the state of development again. Sourcecode: https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6 Edit: someone information about Lazarus deleted their comment, my answer; I know about Lazarus…