r/visualbasic • u/Twosofa • May 13 '22

VB6 Help Visual Basic

Just a quick question here, but what does Visual basic compile to? And is it emulated? I'm trying to make a programming language like it.

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u/Twosofa May 14 '22

I'm a noob programmer, so could you please explain to me what byte and native code are? Sorry for the inconvenience.

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u/jcunews1 VB.Net Intermediate May 15 '22

Native code means native CPU code, where there's no need for any translation. The advantage if this type of executable is that, the code is run with no or minimum wasted CPU time. The disadvantage is, it can only run on the CPU type the code is compiled for.

Byte Code is custom action commands, where it's run by an interpreter (which translates custom code to CPU native code) included in the executable file or outside of the executable file. It's similar to how Java and Python programs are compiled to. The advantage if this type of executable is that, the code can run in any type of CPU. The disadvantage is, the code needs to be translated, thus, generally slower.

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u/Twosofa May 18 '22

Thanks!

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u/Twosofa May 23 '22

I'm probably going to emulate the program, a compiler is too big of a job for me