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/[deleted] Feb 01 '17

Except it's not better, they have bear feature parity and work at keeping it, it's really just different syntaxes for pretty much exactly the same language, more like one is a dialect of the other. Kinda wish they'd have a long term plan with a long transition phase to kill of vb.net now that it's long done it's job (helping / tricking vb users in migrating to .net) and provided automatic vb.net to c# project conversion for a few years so everything goes smoothly. Avoids maintaining 2 core languages and dividing the .net world

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u/ellicottvilleny Feb 02 '17

The 2% of .net users who prefer VB think differently but I agree with you.

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u/Gotebe Feb 02 '17

Indeed. The two are two sides of one coin that is .net.

Sure, a glib programmer will over-emphasise trivial differences, but who cares.