GEP News

I'm working on a new version of the GEP, version 1.6, which will be a complete re-write of the GEP under Visual Basic 6. You're probably asking why I'm doing this, as VB6 is an old language with no more formal support from Microsoft. There is one very simple, but very powerful reason for this; C# (and by extension all of the .Net languages) are not compiled in native machine code, they are compiled into MSIL/CIL, which is an intermediate language that is interpreted by Microsoft's own virtual machine. This makes the program run slower than one compiled under a compiled language, such as Visual Basic 6 or C/C++.


I have gathered resources and am working on getting one final library under the hood so I can still offer file compression on encryption or decryption. I can't make any guarantees as to when it will be released, suffice to say that I will release it once it is done to my liking.

Well... that's all the news I have for now, so stay tuned and stay safe out there.