I’d want this if only because I’m stuck maintaining old industrial software written in VB6 (it is omnipresent in manufacturing) and I’d like to have a development experience that is actually somewhat usable.
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How hard could it be to just clone it, at this point?
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The point is that is was included in Windows.
replyAlready enterprise approved on the MS stack.
I know HN is all startups with macbooks on local admin, but in bigger companies even devs cannot just install whatever they want.
I used to run it on a very crappy PC when it came out. The binary is probably pretty tiny and can likely be decompiled quite nicely with modern tools.
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