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The truth will set you free 🥲 (suppo.fi)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Don't cry, babe -- at least I didn't say Visual Basic.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I understand the hatred of VB generally but as a non-programmer (just technically literate and knows enough to be dangerous with a computer) writing VB (in the form of VBA) was extremely accessible and surprisingly intuitive - far more than I ever experienced when dabbling in python, JavaScript and Rust.

    (What I made was unhinged, unholy and should never see the light of day. It made a normally talkative .net programmer go silent in shock yet it is responsible for managing the project resourcing in a big department in the company... But it was quite fun and it does work...)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    My joke comment was based on love! I actually started my professional career with VB (3 no less) and it was an excellent language for what it was good for, mainly building good UIs. Sure, it could be -- and was -- used to create unearthly horrors, but that's true of every language and platform.

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