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It cant be behind VB. No way. The only reason VB could be in a better shape is because it is in Roslyn compiler next to C#. But nobody talks, onboards or plans
by oaiey 5y ago
It cant be behind VB. No way. The only reason VB could be in a better shape is because it is in Roslyn compiler next to C#. But nobody talks, onboards or plans a future on VB.NET. The lack of interest from the .NET team is staggering. And there is no VB community as strong as the F# community.
- pjmlp 5y agoVB is everywhere in many life science companies as Office companion (yes VB not VBA). It is not managed by a secondary team. With a few exceptions, every Visual Studio tool targeted for .NET development also does VB.NET. The enterprise developers, those that Hanselmen calls dark matter developers, are more likely to use VB than F#, then leave and do something completely unrelated to work. Maybe that isn't being strong, but it gets the job done.
- oaiey 5y agoAgree with that (there is a lot of dark matter), but I would not call it "managed". They try to stop it, customers complain, they do the minimum to support it, repeat. For a decade. There is still no VB plugin for VS Code. They completely missed the chance to bring VB to Linux. To Notebooks. To Blazer. To Razor pages (vs eg php). It is not advertised, it is never considered for first wave and most of the time never considered for a use case. Compared to that, F# is managed (by a peer of the C# group), advertised, and arrives everywhere.