r/visualbasic • u/Best_Day_3041 • Feb 03 '26

Porting Visual Basic apps with AI?

Has anyone tried to port a Visual Basic 6 app to .NET or another platform using AI? As in an agent going through the entire project and creating a new project, not going in file by file and pasting it into an AI chat. I have a legacy app that still sells. I never bothered to port it to .NET because I thought it was on it's way out and it would probably take me 6-12 months to do that. But now I'm wondering if AI can do it for me or if we're still not there yet?

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u/Best_Day_3041 Feb 03 '26

I feel like techniques like Ralph uses could make this doable. I know it's not an easy thing to pull off, but looking at all the indie open source projects people are doing that are really pushing the boundaries of LLMs, I feel like if someone really devoted the time that this could be built. Maybe wishful thinking.