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I did what I always do when presented with a list like this - I checked out Visual Basic. The list makes no distinction between BASIC, Visual Basic and VB.NET.
by Spearchucker 15y ago
I did what I always do when presented with a list like this - I checked out Visual Basic. The list makes no distinction between BASIC, Visual Basic and VB.NET. That killed any credibility the list might otherwise have had, and after realising that it appears to be more of a "what's hot, what's not" list, I stopped reading. It definitely does not do what the title suggests it does. No value.
- bunderbunder 15y agoI think it's safe to assume the rankings are for VB.NET.
- Spearchucker 15y agoI doubt it. VB.NET does what C# does. There are more VB.NET code searches on MSDN than there are C# code searches, which doesn't align with the ranking in the article. The rankings make more sense when applied to VB6 and earlier.
- bunderbunder 15y agoThat may be the case, but on the other hand C#'s TIOBE ranking is quite a bit higher than VB's. And really, neither metric is a good proxy for how much code is actually being cut in either language. The only thing that's certain is that language popularity surveys are painfully easy to cherry-pick.