08-29-2022, 10:09 PM
(08-26-2022, 05:00 AM)JRace Wrote:For simple quick-and-dirty programs, for me Lua has been my savior. I was compelled to learn it while I couldn't get into Windows7 due to a bad hard-disk crash and force-booted into 32-bit Ubuntu Studio out of an external USB disk for about three years.(08-25-2022, 11:02 PM)Ed Davis Wrote: Apparently, starting with Windows 7, Visual Basic .Net comes pre-installed with Windows.
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Not sure why VB.Net doesn't get much love - I really like it! For simple Console quick and dirty programs, it is great!
Your last sentence nails it. An openly available c/l compiler could be VERY useful for q'n'd tasks, but all I had ever heard about until recently were MS's multi-gigabyte development systems & IDE's, which I will not allow on my machines.
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M$VB-dot-NET might come with Windows but where's the documentation? What if you cannot have online access and want to use it? No hope neither to use Powershell without documentation, unless Visual Studio was downloaded. Might be able to acquire a chunk of M$DN but it's a mess I'd rather avoid if not discussing Win32 API. @JRace I'm just like you, I've tried it only to get Terra to run and failed. Very disgusting for a compiler-like "super" Lua, which EXE file is 86MB to require over 13GB of dependencies?