XYplorer Beta Club

let's face it, continuing development in VB6 is a dead end road, and microsoft has tried to get rid of it for a long time now. what if they one day exclude the runtime from their new OS?

VB6 also means no multithreading and no 64-bit. i read on this forum that a 64 bit compiler is coming, but i have a hard time believing that, given how difficult it is to write one. big companies like microsoft and intel have issues with their compilers, so even if someone manages to write one for VB6 it will probably be very buggy.

imo it's better to move to a new programming language now than later, when there's more code to port over.
i wonder what other members think about it.

Oxide wrote:i wonder what other members think about it.

Doesn't matter what we as users think about it -- what matters is what Don thinks -- since it's his 200K+ lines of code (I think I saw that mentioned here once) that would need to get adapted -- and that effort would take a VERY loooooong time....

I would not worry about it. I make a tool to help you solve your problems. Let the source code be my problem.

admin wrote:I would not worry about it. I make a tool to help you solve your problems. Let the source code be my problem.

This VB6 \ 64-bit thing is coming up regularly now though. Do you have any plans to move away from it in the future?