Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
- ID
- 27621
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 23 Sep 2026, 5:00 AM
- Fetched
- 24 Sep 2026, 4:22 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://foxscript.org/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 24 Sep 2026, 4:24 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developers
What happened
FoxDev Studio is a from-scratch 64-bit runtime and IDE for Visual FoxPro 9 applications, opening existing projects, forms, and tables without migration or conversion. It covers 1,722 VFP9 language elements, with 1,534 verified against the original product's output, and includes designers, a debugger, and HTTP route handling via lambdas.
Why it matters
Only relevant if you maintain or inherit legacy Visual FoxPro applications — this lets you run and edit them on 64-bit machines without rewriting. For everyone else, it's a curiosity about reverse-engineering a dead language runtime by matching behavior against the original product rather than documentation.
Discussion angle
The engineering approach of validating a reimplementation by comparing outputs against the original product rather than trusting documentation — and whether that pattern applies to other legacy runtime replacements.