New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
467 by boredjohnny | 250 comments on Hacker News.
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?