Processing 10GB of data is fundamentally different, in the sense that the data you want to process is going to be more complex - many 1kb files, or a pile of structured map data or weather data or something that you aren't going to want to write your own parser for - there are surely more common data formats now than there were decades ago.
Copying data to/from the internet isn't "fundamentally" different, it's normally different. Python requests module, Beautiful Soup, a good XML and JSON library will get you a lot further than plain VB code when working with internet things. It's not only scale which has changed, there's more kinds of things to do, and more existing popular large systems to tie into, and the desire to make use of more existing libraries to build on.
Yet another excuse, imagining that the user is some drooling {disinterested person} who never uses tools correctly
That pretty much is my experience of non-geeks using computers.
things must be as crap as they are because we have to cater to them. Linux desktop has been targeting this user for over a decade, where has it gotten them?
As I said, you claim VB is some pinnacle of computing which we've lost, but it's still there. You also claim that nothing has changed and nothing needs to be different, so I'm still at a loss how you can then say that there's nothing today like VB was for normal people. If VB exists and you think nothing is different .. what's wrong?
Copying data to/from the internet isn't "fundamentally" different, it's normally different. Python requests module, Beautiful Soup, a good XML and JSON library will get you a lot further than plain VB code when working with internet things. It's not only scale which has changed, there's more kinds of things to do, and more existing popular large systems to tie into, and the desire to make use of more existing libraries to build on.
Yet another excuse, imagining that the user is some drooling {disinterested person} who never uses tools correctly
That pretty much is my experience of non-geeks using computers.
things must be as crap as they are because we have to cater to them. Linux desktop has been targeting this user for over a decade, where has it gotten them?
As I said, you claim VB is some pinnacle of computing which we've lost, but it's still there. You also claim that nothing has changed and nothing needs to be different, so I'm still at a loss how you can then say that there's nothing today like VB was for normal people. If VB exists and you think nothing is different .. what's wrong?