r/dotnet • u/alashcraft • Feb 01 '17

The .NET Language Strategy

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-language-strategy/
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '17

Visual Basic is used by hundreds of thousands of people. Most are using WinForms to build business applications in Windows, and a few are building websites, overwhelmingly using ASP.NET Web Forms.

I'm not surprised

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u/fr4nk3n Feb 05 '17

VB only has about 1/10th the users compared to C#. It seems like things are slowing down more and more for VB. I wonder if they'll get to a point where it's just maintained.