[roywiggins]

I know this project is just for fun, but I did once work on a website backend that genuinely used Visual Basic 6 to generate dynamic webpages. This was not a small, internal product either, and it was in this century. I think they moved it all to .NET eventually, but for a while it was Frankensteined out of .NET and VB6.

The main thing I remember was trying to debug questionnaire functionality and getting very nearly nowhere: it was an entire questionnaire engine implemented in VB6, which was probably why it hadn't been ported to .NET yet. I'm sure PHP of the same vintage would have been equally gnarly, mind you.

[sakopov]

Worked on a ton of classic ASP back in 06-08 at a local insurance company. They crazy thing is that none of that stuff got converted to anything else and is still running in production.

[j45]

Something to be said for code that can be understood due to its simplicity even if it’s verbose, which can be good for people new to the code base.

[latentsea]

At one of my first jobs I had a similar VB6 / .NET hybrid app to take care of. I always remember back to trying to figure out how to work on the VB6 app if it ever broke and we had to fix it and the answer being something absurd like a Stack overflow post was calling out that you had to go on Ebay and buy a used copy of the IDE on a CD-ROM. Wild.

[ndiddy]

Microsoft still offers VB6 CD images as part of an MSDN subscription.