It has been for a very long time, and that's a reasonable approach IMO. I say this as someone without most of the usual prejudice against VB; I used to work in

It has been for a very long time, and that's a reasonable approach IMO. I say this as someone without most of the usual prejudice against VB; I used to work in a large codebase that was half VB.NET and half C#, and didn't mind VB. VB was a little more verbose for some things, but after getting used to the syntax the developer experience was basically the same in each language (yes, with a few small exceptions like XML literals). Ultimately, that's the problem with VB; it's not different enough from C# to really justify significant investments in 2023. There are some die-hards who really like the VB syntax but they're growing ever rarer.