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by AndrewSChapman 1501 days ago
The closest experience I've had to VB in a more modern context is B4J: https://www.b4x.com/b4j.html

Visual designer, integrated IDE and debugger, basic language, very similar philosophy, cross platform (thanks to using the JVM as the compile target).

Unfortunately however you do need Windows to author which is not me these days.

As tools for making little apps or rapid prototyping it's quite decent.