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Your last point seems to reflect my initial sentiment that it would have been great to see VB evolve over last 20 years.
by kerng 7y ago
Your last point seems to reflect my initial sentiment that it would have been great to see VB evolve over last 20 years.
- WorldMaker 7y agoIt did evolve over the last 20 years, you just casually dismissed everything it evolved into as being "slow" or "harder". The VB.NET version numbers continued from 6 and the VB.NET team has always considered itself to be the successor language. Visual Studio has decades of improvements from the VB6 era when every language was siloed and weird inconsistencies between project systems was the norm rather than bugs to be reported. It got slower for a while, but VS 2019 is faster and more capable than VB6 ever was. WinForms and WPF (and UWP) learned from a lot from the mistakes of the ActiveX/OLE era of VB6 and got better because of it. Everything evolved, it sounds like you just don't like the direction it evolved in.
- kerng 7y agoVB.net had literally nothing to do with VB6. I know so many hobbyists, and even professional developers, that were totally lost. Microsoft really messed that one up, similar with what they did with Silverlight.