10:35:29 <njsg> Sompi: oh, fun, kansalaisaloite is behind cloudflare.
14:08:50 <tomman> https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ how ironic that the reimplementation of a SIMPLE dev tool now requires fancy JS
14:09:01 <tomman> > SyntaxError: await is a reserved identifier
14:09:24 <tomman> (it hangs at an Avalonia logo, since this is .NET crap being turned into a webapp against our will)
14:11:50 <tomman> on FF128ESR it runs... slowly, clunky (while the real VB6 would smoke tires on a lowly Pentium MMX)
14:13:03 <tomman> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42106196 and oh hey, the lone dude with common sense that DARED complaining about the neverneding abuse of web tech over this got dogpiled by other rabid Hackernews
14:16:37 <njsg> .NET?
14:17:22 <njsg> AFAIK that one is not .NET, or do you mean the webappified implementation is?
14:17:54 <njsg> ... maybe I'll test it by making a GUI interface to track an IP address!
14:21:18 <njsg> (VB6 was also "VB98", now that I had a peek inside the setup directory names?)
14:34:46 <tomman> Avalonia is .NET
14:34:48 <tomman> > Avalonia is a free and open-source[3][4] .NET cross-platform XAML-based UI framework [5] inspired by WPF/UWP and distributed under the MIT License.[6][7][8] Avalonia supports the MVVM pattern.[9]
14:35:27 <tomman> ironically, a remake of VB6 in .NET (as a proper desktop application!) would be killer, since developers HATED VB.NET
14:35:55 <tomman> instead of fixing the classic VB language faults, MS went and came up with a completely new language that was vaguely resembling VB
14:36:13 <tomman> and of course your old existing code would not work as-is, you had essentially to rewrite most (if not all) of it
14:36:54 <tomman> hence why devs stuck to VB6 'till the cold death of the universe, or just decided they were grown up enough to jump ship to Delphi, Java, C++, or even C#