Commenters discussed a browser-native recreation of the classic VB6 IDE with a mix of nostalgia and critique. franga2000 and others praised the VB-style discoverability - palettes, property grids and one-click event generation - while waldrews called the property grid “the greatest general purpose UI.” Many shared fond memories of learning programming in VB (sijmen, stsch, msephton) and hoped for modern RAD experiences, with jit_tech and 2001zhaozhao suggesting AI-driven code generation could restore that tight edit/run loop. avallach and others applauded the author’s prolific work and linked projects, while meredydd compared the experience to Anvil for Python as a contemporary analogue.
Other commenters focused on implementation flaws and limits. badsectoracula detailed visual inaccuracies, interaction bugs and missing events, and Narishma and vunderba noted text-rendering and Win32 API gaps; wiradikusuma and wiradikusuma observed missing debugging/IntelliSense and non-executable HTML output. webprofusion raised trademark risk, and fg137 and others downplayed the project as an HTML/JS generator rather than a true VB6 emulator. Debate also split on whether AI did the work: bitwize suspected no AI, giancarlostoro and rwmj discussed AI’s role, while elendilm insisted skilled developers can build such things without agents.
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