Built a VB6 Studio Web: a browser-native IDE, VB-style source runtime, form designer, browser control library, debugger, and single-file HTML application exporter. Imagine you can build any app in RAD IDE using real VB6 and then just download single page static HTML app.

Rich text editor sample

Code

Graphics sample, entire IDE and app use powerful WebGPU (with fallbacks)

people woefully underestimate how easy vb6 and early html was before the the complexity set in.

This easy features have been lost over time sadly

Common controls sample

For those asking why, the guy has a nostalgia 😔… Enjoy it

Best answer ever

Live version

Wooo that takes me back! Loved VB6.

Time to bring it back 😎

I added an working Claude AI Agent for fun in my fork...

Very nice, I am also adding that now and MCP support too.

Truly I have no idea how you do this and with such velocity. Admirable.

期待一个mac os9风格的工作台

Yep done

Why the hell would you do this?

😻

Have you looked at Xojo? It marketed itself as the VB6 replacement (after .NET came along).

Not really, I just built this for fun, might improve bit more, if anyone wants something improved please open ticket

does the exported html run offline, including the vb runtime and control assets?

Yes

Why??

It’s amazing 🤩

Purpose? Serious question.

Fun

Well someone in comments mentioned banks or enterprises might be into it so might be good business idea after all 😎

Can you link it to a database ? And host it on a website?

Great idea, you can build standalone html so you can host easily.

Love this. Great work.

y para que sería de utilidad ?

Building or migrating apps

old days memory

Luv it

THIS is so incredible. Is there any way to pull data from a restful api into a dataset?

Will add that later for sure

You'll have the world beating a path to your door. Being able to get old VB6 apps running on the web pulling data from a webapi to display data is gamechanging.

Working on it right now 💪

Beautiful

Those were the dev years I enjoyed the most.

that was my thought as well, VB6 32-bit, claude please create a new DEV solution 64-bit of VB6 Pro or Enterprise, pretty please. :-)

People don’t realise how mind blowing this is

This is amazing 👏

This was peak programming.

Internet Explorer, is it you?!

Terrific, well done!

I want to do a Delphi clone but in Typescript

Now make it use Javascript instead of VB.

Sounds like hell...

Its fun