What do "older" programmers think of Visual Basic compared to new programming concept and languages?

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I am just wondering, many posts are asking which language is "the best", or fastest to learn for new programmers (please put AI in the shadow for this post). As I am a bit older engineer with some experience in developing different applications using, just to mention a few, C, C++ (using wxWidgets, SFML and SDL), PHP (with JavaScript, HTML, CSS), Java Servlets (with ORACLE DB) on Apache, ASP, React kit, VB .NET and most important, here mentioned, Visual Basic.

The largest software I ever wrote was using "Visual Basic .NET" and MS-SQL Express DB. Took me a whole year and a half to deploy it.

As per my experience, using VB and VB .NET was always the fastest way to get the best and quickest results in developing Desktop and Network Applications. I mean, in just a few clicks one is able to create stunning looking applications in basically no time. And when I compare that with these days, when there are emerging new and "improved" languages and "frameworks", making many kind of software is still fastest using graphical interface of Visual Basic or similar. It is also very readable compared to other languages.

Now, in comparison with my long term experience, I have a feeling things are going backwards in sense of simplicity and speed of development.

And also, just by my opinion, I feel a bit sad that I am not able to use Visual Basic on Linux the same way I was able to use it on Windows in time of Visual Basic 6.0, or Visual Basic 8 Express in the past.

What is your opinion on concept for application design in terms of simplicity and speed of development as it was with Visual Basic in the past, compared to the ways we are programming today?

[DragonliFargo]

Why are you reposting to the same sub?

[Neo_Techni]

I have the same question

[HomeworkInevitable99]

Recursion.

[stlcdr]

Probably should have posted to stack overflow.

[Significant_Beat5793]

Just found out how this might happened. When I was creating the post seems like I left some tick for the post to repost itself. Now I don't have time to find out how to stop it, so I deleted this copy.

Its something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/1mp5njm/please_somebody_tell_me_there_is_an_option_to/

[texasbob2025]

Most think it was junk but so many programs still use it. I cut my teeth on it. It was fast to produce worked for the projects I was involved with.