As a teen, I remember I had a copy of Visual Basic 3, and made a game called time-waster 3000. Being able to just "create a GUI" with drag-and-drop, as opposed to having to program one made making quick useful apps a lot easier for non-programmers. (For better or worse)
> Torvalds, as it turns out, was right: it was primarily the tools, ecosystems, integrations, and frameworks that would define the near future, not the design of the languages themselves.
JavaScript, as a case in point. It's a terrible language.
443 points by panic on March 17, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 259 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35192913
As a teen, I remember I had a copy of Visual Basic 3, and made a game called time-waster 3000. Being able to just "create a GUI" with drag-and-drop, as opposed to having to program one made making quick useful apps a lot easier for non-programmers. (For better or worse)