I will go ahead and say that it still is a better tool in various contexts than what a lot of programmers use now.
I'm saying that as someone who did quite a lot of VB6 programming many, many years ago but now generally creates UIs with some HTML or Vue or whatever inside of vim.
I think a lot more of what we do is related to fashion as much as any technical reason.
It's definitely not cool to program in VB6. People will assume you are not a programmer or just write awful code.
But that happens with any tool that really significantly makes programming easier, if it touches on the core paradigm of colorful cryptic text.
I'm saying that as someone who did quite a lot of VB6 programming many, many years ago but now generally creates UIs with some HTML or Vue or whatever inside of vim.
I think a lot more of what we do is related to fashion as much as any technical reason.
It's definitely not cool to program in VB6. People will assume you are not a programmer or just write awful code.
But that happens with any tool that really significantly makes programming easier, if it touches on the core paradigm of colorful cryptic text.