Ask HN: What is the modern equivalent of Visual Basic?
I just got married, and am working on a little app to download our sundry financial data via .ofx and let us do some light categorization and reporting. Nothing too complicated.<p>In order to make this at all usable, I more or less need:<p>1. A running instance of a db (mongo, postgres)<p>2. A web server<p>3. My python application which knows how to read and parse and store our data<p>4. Some frontend code to display charts (vue.js, chart.js)<p>5. Design a light HTTP API layer to surface data to said frontend<p>It seems like a lot! Lots of layers in different systems, and lots of documentation across different libraries:<p>1. DB schema<p>2. HTTP restful schema<p>3. Figure out which pieces of Vuetify (or bootstrap) to use for my UX<p>4. vue controllers<p>In a previous life, I might have cracked open Visual Basic, written my logic, bound to a local MS Access database, and drag-and-drop form controls for a GUI. I&#x27;d be <i>done</i> by now.<p>Is there a modern equivalent of the sheer ease and speed of VB programming for small utilities that I&#x27;d want to write for myself?