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MS' goal is for kids not to learn the Linux subsystem, and focus on Visual Studio instead. I thought Visual Basic was the way to program on Win 95-2001 until v
by tajen 9y ago
MS' goal is for kids not to learn the Linux subsystem, and focus on Visual Studio instead.
I thought Visual Basic was the way to program on Win 95-2001 until very late. It landed me a crappy career start, despite starting at 7yo. Getting Windows, even for free, is a straight loss in the long term.
- pjmlp 9y agoThe guys getting paid to develop VB.NET at some of our customer sites are quite happy with their salaries.
- qb45 9y agoCould it be that there used to be an oversupply of low skilled VB programmers and that nowadays JS is the new VB? I remember hacking simple VB apps as a self-taught teenager and I could probably get a job in it if there was an opportunity and if I didn't go to uni to learn other things instead. Today I suppose VB is not much different from COBOL - just an old language used in few systems here and there maintained by dedicated specialists. Or are there still new things built in VB?
- pjmlp 9y agoOn Lifesciences there are lots of researchers using VB.NET to write small applications to process data coming out from microplate readers. The industry for these type of devices is mostly Windows based, with drivers implemented in COM or Win32 APIs. So they get access to the SDKs and write small applications to process their data in ways that fit their workflows.