You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds

Someone replied to that post "notice how fast everything is to launch", but did Visual Basic really start up that fast back in the day? I'm old enough to have used XP as a kid, and I remember the languorous boot times, but I never programmed on it. My guess is that XP is running in a VM on modern hardware in this GIF.

I can confirm that it took way longer than that on actual contemporary hardware.

VB6 was old by the time XP appeared, and XP lasted for a long time. It was fast.