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Visual Basic is hardly academic; they is a tremendous amount of line-of-business code that has been written in VB over the past 25 years. But yeah, Go dev do n
by mikeschinkel 7y ago
Visual Basic is hardly academic; they is a tremendous amount of line-of-business code that has been written in VB over the past 25 years.
But yeah, Go dev do not see VB's features as being "features."
- pjmlp 7y agoThe point was that many of VB.NET features are what many in the community attack as being academic and not worthy of being adopted by Go.
- mikeschinkel 7y agoGiven that I have worked with VB long before .NET even existed, I have a broader view of it than just the more recent criticisms. VB's biggest problem IMO is that it tried to compete with C# instead of maintaining its original raison d'être which was to be a highly productive tool that required very little programming skill to be able to start building real solutions for business use. But I digress...