VB gets a lot of hate. But the language is perfectly fine for the most part. One of the most annoying things about VB.NET is that projects need to be configured

VB gets a lot of hate. But the language is perfectly fine for the most part. One of the most annoying things about VB.NET is that projects need to be configured with certain options out of the box otherwise it allows you to write some very sloppy code. I still use VB.NET for creating quick tooling for either myself or non-technical users. There doesn't appear to be anything else really these days for doing that. The newer options from Microsoft tend to enforce a lot of patterns, which just slow you down, when for small tools you don't really require all that guff. I hope with an open source .NET compiler it will be possible VB.NET to carry on well beyond Microsoft's culling.