{
  "id": 9297155,
  "title": "Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/microsoft-killed-foxpro-in-2007-anyway-heres-foxpro-revived-9297155",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T21:00:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hacker News Best",
    "slug": "hacker-news-best",
    "url": "https://foxscript.org/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}