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Funny to see early predictions about the .NET ecosystem: "Perhaps I am wrong, but let me state what I believe about this stuff. ...C# is not really important a
by Nelkins 8y ago
Funny to see early predictions about the .NET ecosystem:
"Perhaps I am wrong, but let me state what I believe about this stuff. ...C# is not really important as it will never
reach the 'mass' of VB..."
- bunderbunder 8y agoI think that the early expectation was that, since (non-.NET) Visual Basic was being sunsetted at the same time, VB6 developers would quickly adopt VB.NET, and that would lead to VB quickly becoming the most popular .NET language. Which, yeah, proved to be hilariously wrong. Here we are in 2019, and I can still name several actively maintained applications that are written in VB6. Another thing they couldn't have really known at the time was how exactly C# and .NET would evolve over the following decade. Once upon a time, interacting with COM interfaces was much easier in VB.NET than in C#, and that made it relatively more attractive as an enterprise dev language. C# 4 more-or-less closed that gap -- VB.NET's other practical advantages are so minor they don't really even bear mentioning.