Assembly is kind of the base line for anything performance sensitive, I doubt most people using it are working with assembly full time, kind of like how all web

Assembly is kind of the base line for anything performance sensitive, I doubt most people using it are working with assembly full time, kind of like how all web/full stack devs use javascript. VB.net is basically all LOB style applications, it will be in small business, it will be in the enterprise space, etc. I doubt there are many starting new work in VB instead of c# but that still leaves tonnes of legacy stuff. As with assembly, a lot of full time c# devs would be maintaining VB from time to time. What I always find fascinating is the disconnect between what's popular on places like HN and the real world.