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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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377 points porterde | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 21:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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wiseowise ◴[14 Nov 24 22:51 UTC] No.42142078[source]▶
Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits.

It looks and works so intuitively.

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RandallBrown ◴[14 Nov 24 23:12 UTC] No.42142252[source]▶
This is fairly similar to how Interface Builder in Xcode works for macOS and iOS apps.

Like others have said, it works well until you need to support different screen sizes, layouts, animations, touch interaction, etc.

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1. mixmastamyk ◴[15 Nov 24 00:15 UTC] No.42142715[source]▶
90s toolkits had "layout managers" to avoid hardcoding widget locations and sizes. Might need to extend a feature or two but probably could have been done without starting from scratch.