Re: [ossig] What's Wrong With VB ?

[ditesh@xxxxxxxxxx]

> I am a VB user, by accident.Was involved initially in consulting for a
> proejct to build an accounting system. Somewhere in the middle, I got
> involved with the hands on development. I have never tried phyton
> before, so, I can't compare between the 2.

All the strengths you pointed out are the strengths of the IDE, not the
language. From what little I have read (and heard endlessly) Python is
excellent language, but clearly the development tools for Python don't
reach the level of quality Visual Studio has to offer (of course, some
will claim that vim/emacs is sufficient and being a vim user myself, I
agree but the larger market tends to disagree strongly with us cli users).

> 2. Performance issues - need to apply the common best practices

I've heard this weakness levelled against many dev environments, so it's
really not unique to VB.

> 3. Not suitable for certain application development - such as those
> which are processor intensive - e.g. 3D games

And Python/PHP/Perl/etc is? :) Right tool for the right job.

> > WYSIWYG IDE. If there are WYSIWYG HTML editors, why can't there be
> WYSIWYG php editors ?

Excellent point. The biggest strength MS has is understanding customer
needs. The PHP world has been lacking this for many moons, not to mention
an IDE at the level and sophistication other dev platforms have.

Ditesh

p/s: Give Gambas a shot. Not a VB competitor but shockingly ahead for an
open source project.


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