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Python and VB target very different audiences, is there something I'm missing here? Python is an interpreted dynamic language that turns into an unwieldy monste
by eyegor 6y ago
Python and VB target very different audiences, is there something I'm missing here? Python is an interpreted dynamic language that turns into an unwieldy monster at scale, I believe VB was mostly fighting for Fortran and web devs.
- emodendroket 6y agoWasn't VB.NET an attempt to get VB6 guys on .NET?
- fpig 6y agoIt was, but never really became relevant because most people switched to C# + WinForms and never looked back. As there was never (as far as I know) an easy way to migrate existing apps from VB6 to VB.NET, the main reason to use VB.NET would have been a preference for the BASIC syntax, which I don't think was ever particularly common, this was always just a loud minority. And a significant part of this minority also didn't like VB.NET because even this was too different from what they were used to. Keep in mind the only 2 good GUI tools at the time, IIRC, were VB6 and Delphi. VC++ and stuff like MFC was overly complicated, and the Java stuff was garbage. As neither VB6 nor Delphi used a C-family language, you had a lot of people using them just because it was a better tool, not because of a preference for the language.