I always wonder where is the VB6/Windows Forms for web apps. I don't want to know the intricacies of Rect/Angular/Vue, I just want to do a declaration of the UI, not programming. Zillions of apps doing the same thing and spending weeks and months on the same problems. I start to think that this is not interesting for, for example, Microsoft because the developer market will shrink and their developers, developers, developers mantra. I remember when Bootstrap come up and suddenly we don't need a lot of graphic design time to build a web page.
Just an additional note about VB6/Windows Forms. They helped to build commodity UIs but when you needed more advanced one you should rely on specific components.
> I always wonder where is the VB6/Windows Forms for web apps.
they tried. it's called asp.net webforms.
it sucked hard. bécause they forced event driven paradigm in a stateless environment (http) resulting to hacks (hello viewstate).
but hey it was my gateway drug into web development as a winforms guy. im the sucker and i shouldnt be complaining. but 15 years later im back to aspnet webforms because of legacy apps the client doesn't want to upgrade yet.
I always wonder where is the VB6/Windows Forms for web apps?
Me too. Dreamweaver once did that. But the Javascript/CSS crowd complicated layout so much that writing WYSIWYG layout tools became extremely difficult.
Blue Griffon is perhaps the last remnant of that era.
Just an additional note about VB6/Windows Forms. They helped to build commodity UIs but when you needed more advanced one you should rely on specific components.