I worked for a company around 2009 where the creator composed his own bespoke VB like programs environment – IDE, PC emulator, bytecode VM, compiler for ruggedized Windows CE gadgets used for field services.
The company was established around1996 I presume he composed it because there was no simple way to develop for Win CE back then other than for C / MFC. It did permit the company to work with a lot of inexpensive designers from well known but not well respected private colleges.
The same code could likewise be used for the back end supporting services, however he did a minimum of add assistance for COM interop on the server so we might utilize any language to really do the heavy lifting.
They pushed him out around 2011 and I was the only old guy that knew anything about C / MFC and assembly to maintain it until the company folded.
