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the decline of basic is the story of .NET and c#. MS stopped meaningful support for it and went all in on .NET.
by sumtechguy 3y ago
the decline of basic is the story of .NET and c#. MS stopped meaningful support for it and went all in on .NET.
- cies 3y agoAnd for good reasons. F# and C# are superior to Visual Basic -- for a language perspective -- in every way. Also dotnetcore is MIT licensed!
- sumtechguy 3y agoI do not disagree. The problem was the visual basic ecosystem was basically abandoned. I personally did not use it and thought it kinda of janky. But thousands of people for some reason really connected to it and could make interesting things. MS threw out all of that goodwill and forced Visual Studio 2002 which was utter junk compared to visual studio 6 and not really fixed until 2010. Yeah now c# is better. But at first it was a real head scratcher and the IDE made it seem terrible.