> > The result: except for some geeks people have decided that they prefer the C# syntax and it seems to me that Microsoft thus slowly tries to fade out VB.net.

> > The result: except for some geeks people have decided that they prefer the C# syntax and it seems to me that Microsoft thus slowly tries to fade out VB.net. > Not really, VB.NET enjoys much more MS love than F#. This is surely true, but in my opinion F# is more different from C#/VB.net than "just being for most parts a different code representation". So I would consider F# as an independent programming language - which indeed seems to be fallen out of favor by MS.