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by johnwheeler 1867 days ago
I got my start on Drumbeat which later was purchased by macromedia. I miss my spinning 3D text gifs.
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cfn 1866 days ago
Indeed, I still have one backend in production built back then with Drumbeat. Its UI was very new and rebuilt/consulted with Alan Cooper of Thunder/Visual Basic/About Face fame.
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johnwheeler 1865 days ago
Interesting. I remember Alan Cooper. He wore a beret type hat.
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johns 1867 days ago
Drumbeat was incredible. VB for the web.
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breakfastduck 1867 days ago
No web UI component framework has matched the usability of VB.

Why haven't we seen a true successor?

Microsoft should do a native TypeScriptVB or something.

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bliteben 1867 days ago
I love how xcode's object -> function mapping seems inspired by visual basic / delphi, but actually makes no fucking sense when compared to those tools.
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