I can only assume you're joking. VB was never respected, it had a reputation back in the day of being the tool of choice for shoddy drag & drop Windows GUI apps

I can only assume you're joking. VB was never respected, it had a reputation back in the day of being the tool of choice for shoddy drag & drop Windows GUI apps. On Windows C++ was the tool of choice and Delphi was kind of a secret weapon for GUI development. Then C# happened, and MS unceremoniously flushed VB down the drain. The VB community was outraged about VB.NET...