There's "Fall out of favor within MS Developer Division, who has to build the future" and "Fall out of favor with line of business app developers." VB6 (runtim

There's "Fall out of favor within MS Developer Division, who has to build the future" and "Fall out of favor with line of business app developers." VB6 (runtime and language) was great for its time but it's an evolutionary dead end. > Was it because of Microsoft forcing VB into "just another skin" over .NET, i.e., a variant of C# that doesn't have curly braces? That's how it looks on the surface, but it's compiled, not interpreted, has an actual type system, threads, a proper standard library. There's also the need to gather the C++ Win32/MFC crowd and the VB6 crowd into a single tent.