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MIXED
61/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 97.8%
Mixed Reviews
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Visual Basic
Microsoft's event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE).
MIXEDAI Build
Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Easy
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSoloSmall Team
WORKS FOR

Rapid Application Development (RAD) for desktop applications, Early introduction to programming in an educational setting

KEY INSIGHT

It's a legacy tool once praised for fast desktop app development but is now outdated for new projects.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Modern, long-term development projects where users seek newer tools and updated licenses

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

I've worked with Visual Basic... all of the available UI toolkits, except HTML, make it easy to build stuff with standard widgets.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: UI development

MIXED

wither Visual Basic!

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Drag-and-drop programming (implied historical use)

MIXED

It’s nice that normals can get things done, yet there has always been the likes of FileMaker Pro and Visual Basic.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Getting things done (implied as a tool for 'normals' to accomplish tasks)

MIXED

I took a Visual Basic class in high school and a Java class in college.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Took a class in high school as an early introduction to programming.

FAILED

I was getting sick of Visual Basic and Excel, and besides, my VB license was more than a decade old.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General programming and problem-solving before switching languages

WORKED

It's a great successor to IMHO one of the other all time best RAD environments, Visual Basic.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment

WORKED

I still think it was one of the best tools for RAD (Rapid Application Development), you can definitely tell that .NET with WinForms borrowed heavily from it.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Rapid Application Development (RAD)

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