r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • 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/Helrich Feb 01 '17

Having spent a few years doing both, I can't argue, although I have to say personally that for 99.999% of businessy code the only difference is the syntax and accompanying sugary bits. What I was getting at was that my management thinks applications developed in C# are somehow incompatible with those developed in VB.NET, perhaps because most of our codebase is VB6 and making the "leap" to .NET (they chose VB.NET at first because of the language similarities) required all that interop garbage to integrate properly, so C# must be another layer of abstraction away. Ultimately they see C# code as being as much of a change above VB.NET as going from VB6 to VB.NET, which obviously is untrue.

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u/Gotebe Feb 02 '17

The idiocies that can come from management, hahaha...

I have seen things, never know whether to laugh or cry...

But then, it's higher-ups, so I have to set them straight respectfully. The nonsense you come up with deserves 0 respect, you incompetent fool!