Maybe it’s already too late for a tool like this. Nobody really does drag-and-drop anymore in the age of AI.
But if you want to take a look: appmaker.io
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Oh yes they are..
Interesting sidebar - I was having a session with Claude Code and I needed to describe a complicated screen with lots of elements. I wasn’t thinking of a VB app; I have been vibecoding most of my apps in Rust (which I have never written a line of). I was about to go draw a screen in Excalidraw when I saw my VB6 icon in the taskbar; and I thought it would be a little faster.
So I asked Claude if I gave it just the .frm file if it could read it. It said yes, so I started building up the screen. For controls that I wanted to do specific things, I double clicked and typed my specific instructions for what I wanted in the code editor as comments. I submitted it to Claude and it was able to read everything - so I told it to implement it in Rust. The result was just as I expected. Claude even commented that the .frm file was a very efficient way of transferring intent.
I went over to Codex/ChatGPT and asked the same question - it said yes, and made the comment that using VB as a design intent medium was “weirdly elegant”.
I actually started a project I named “VB8” where the 8 represented the infinity symbol (the app would be referenced as VB Infinity). It was really just a canvas with a sidebar with tools that were simply SVG files, and you could draw your own custom control symbols out of SVGs and primitives. I duplicated the double-click for specific instructions, then added a selector that would let me specify the desired language to use; along with a means to create a symbiotic backend in the same or a different language. I even added the ability to import an image file of any existing screen and the app would duplicate it and make a working prototype.
That project is languishing lately; and I’m not particularly motivated to do much with it at the moment. Just thought that yours was a similar experience, and I think that your concept has more merit than you might realize.
We have freepascal and lazarus
oh damn, hope that can replace powerapps or just maybe work alongside
This was posted here a few days back (not by me) as well https://www.objo.dev/, so many cool tools.
Looks amazing!
Nobody really does drag-and-drop anymore
Isn't that basically what a WYSIWYG webpage editor does? I don't know what commercial developers are using to create webpages today, but looking at the bloated muck it's clear that very few are writing their own code.
Doing something similar:
VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WilliamSmithE.xlide
In O365 app: https://github.com/WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vbide
Feel free to use / borrow the source (you don't even need to attribute).