{"by":"boredjohnny","descendants":270,"id":49808023,"kids":[49811716,49809375,49808920,49810047,49809637,49808434,49808778,49809916,49810658,49809374,49815107,49808356,49809701,49818154,49808530,49808557,49808375,49809764,49816055,49809743,49809803,49808450,49811712,49808396,49812431,49824085,49813082,49819372,49816275,49808440,49818158,49818959,49808896,49819256,49812437,49824781,49812570,49841181,49808471,49808550,49812466,49811041,49824833,49808358,49809157,49813639,49819937,49808568,49808473,49808587,49809577,49809943,49820647,49814542,49813135,49808340,49808734,49814179,49816321,49820806,49812461,49810464,49808494,49813452,49808756,49811627,49819271,49814466,49811757,49817540,49813974,49808770,49808445,49812358,49808024,49808779,49812416,49811812,49825003,49825178,49825133,49826187,49824789,49808990,49813383,49820805,49808828,49808720],"score":488,"text":"Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old 32-bit .fll add-ins still loading, and lambdas, JSON and an HTTP server bolted on for good measure. Reports are not done and the builds are unsigned. MIT because why not?","time":1790110830,"title":"Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived","type":"story","url":"https://foxscript.org/"}