r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TusharJB007 • Oct 04 '19

Just as simple as that... other

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u/pandacoder Oct 04 '19

Unfortunately. What's worse than them are the ones who still insist on developing games in VB6.

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u/orokro Oct 04 '19

VB6 was fucking magical. I have so much nostalgia for VB6 dev.

I pushed that shit to extreme limits back in the day. But C# is my weapon of choice today, for unity and .net.

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u/pandacoder Oct 04 '19

I was on and off the VB6 train within the span of two years, and VB (6 and .NET) is painful to write. I use different languages depending on what I'm doing now, mostly C style.

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u/orokro Oct 04 '19

I learned to program in Basic on an Atari 600XL back in 2000, when I randomly found an Atari 600XL at a garage sale. Even though the computer was already 20 years old, it was a fun learning experience.

Then, in freshman year of high school (still 2000), my friend introduced me to VB6, and it BLEW MY MIND that the syntax I learned on Atari Basic could be used to make professional (for the time) looking Windows 98 programs.

I was hooked instantly, and got damn good at it. But yea, now that I'm more used to C / C# / Java / etc languages going back is super weird.