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There's still Visual Basic .NET, is it much different productivity wise? I assume the language has changed enough from classic VB.
by mattl 3y ago
There's still Visual Basic .NET, is it much different productivity wise? I assume the language has changed enough from classic VB.
- Zelphyr 3y agoI honestly haven't used it because I thought they had retired it altogether. The last time I did use it was about 20 years ago and found that they had changed it enough that I wasn't nearly as productive with it as, say, VB6.
- mattl 3y agoThe Wikipedia article suggests it's still around and that it's being focused more towards rapid development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(.NET) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(.NET)
- progmetaldev 3y agoWhile it is vastly different from VB6, I found that knowing VB6 at least gave me a leg up on understanding what they were going for. Once I was familiar with Visual Basic .NET, I realized how much less syntax was involved with C#, while still being able to use the same libraries. I never looked back, except for my first professional job where my "lead" didn't know C# very well, but knew VB.NET. He made me code in VB.NET, but eventually I took over the project, then immediately extracted the VB.NET code into DLL files that I called from C#, and wrote the remaining application in C# until I could refactor everything into C#.