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pishpash on June 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?

For event-driven programming like what you describe, Visual Basic worked fine. Too bad that kind of very efficient UI building got thrown out irrationally with the hate for Visual Basic the language.

meredydd on June 5, 2017 [–]

Obligatory plug: We're bringing it back!

Check out https://anvil.works - it's like VB, only for this century (the web) and using a sensible language (Python, both client and server).

We just took it to PyCon, and the reaction was pretty gratifying :)

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