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by marssaxman 1152 days ago
Back in 2000-2001 I wrote a new compiler and linker for a cross-platform Visual Basic workalike called REALbasic. In 2016, the company contracted me to help out with a major new language feature they wanted to introduce, so I got a good look at the codebase, and most of what I'd written was still in use. (This inspired both pride and horror!) They have since replaced the code generator backends I wrote with LLVM - an eminently sensible decision - and they've renamed the product "Xojo", but most of what I built is still running.