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Totally agree on F#. I'm 100% paying attention to C#, VB, and F# and making sure everyone kicks butt.

oblio 10y ago
Totally honest question: in the world of Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc. is Visual Basic still relevant? I understand the desire to have it around to drag VB devs to .NET, but is there a market anymore? Wouldn't it be better to just throw it overboard and focus on C# / F# and maybe Typescript as a JS superset?
- tracker1 10y ago
  There's one pretty cool feature that VB.Net has that C#/F# don't and that's an XML literal syntax... I wrote a service interface to a Flex client a few years ago (also having an XML literal syntax) and it was pretty nice going. Of course E4X didn't take hold and the syntax didn't make it into C#, but it was nice at the time. These days I'd lean towards JSON.Net before anything XML based if I can avoid it. WCF could use a little love too.
- jongalloway2 10y ago
  There's a lot of customer demand for VB.NET support: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/7470103-vb-net-should-be-fully-supported-in-asp-net-vnext https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud... https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/236 https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/236 http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/VB-Core http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/VB-Core http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/introducing-asp-net-5#after-content http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/introducing-asp-net-5#after-c... https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/22697f65-b00e-49dc-ae73-4bbf9808a434/is-it-true-that-aspnet-50-not-having-vb-as-an-language?forum=vbgeneral https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/22697...
- pjmlp 10y ago
  Pretty much. For example, we have a customer in health care area, where many of their researchers are using VB.NET for prototyping. The type of stuff people on HN would use Python or R for, they use VB.NET.

oblio 10y ago

Totally honest question: in the world of Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc. is Visual Basic still relevant? I understand the desire to have it around to drag VB devs to .NET, but is there a market anymore? Wouldn't it be better to just throw it overboard and focus on C# / F# and maybe Typescript as a JS superset?

tracker1 10y ago
There's one pretty cool feature that VB.Net has that C#/F# don't and that's an XML literal syntax... I wrote a service interface to a Flex client a few years ago (also having an XML literal syntax) and it was pretty nice going. Of course E4X didn't take hold and the syntax didn't make it into C#, but it was nice at the time. These days I'd lean towards JSON.Net before anything XML based if I can avoid it. WCF could use a little love too.
jongalloway2 10y ago
There's a lot of customer demand for VB.NET support: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/7470103-vb-net-should-be-fully-supported-in-asp-net-vnext https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud... https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/236 https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/236 http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/VB-Core http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/VB-Core http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/introducing-asp-net-5#after-content http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/introducing-asp-net-5#after-c... https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/22697f65-b00e-49dc-ae73-4bbf9808a434/is-it-true-that-aspnet-50-not-having-vb-as-an-language?forum=vbgeneral https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/22697...
pjmlp 10y ago
Pretty much. For example, we have a customer in health care area, where many of their researchers are using VB.NET for prototyping. The type of stuff people on HN would use Python or R for, they use VB.NET.