On: Ask HN: How fast do you code?

[donw]

I don't knw what edw does, but there are a lot of small businesses that need small one-off desktop apps, for which VB is perfect.

[logic → donw]

Agreed here; I've seen that a lot with in-house stuff. At my wife's former employer, almost all of the internally-developed stuff that she supported was a mashup of VB, Access, PowerShell, and third-party tools that they glued together.

[ramchip → logic]

I could understand this, but I've never heard of the all-capital BASIC referring to Visual Basic.

[jpr → donw]

Modern VB is certainly good for that. But calling it BASIC is like calling Common Lisp LISP.

[axod → jpr]

The 'b' still stands for "beginners" whatever you call it.