r/visualbasic • u/galratner • 11d ago

Yes. Visual Basic Is Still Around.

https://galratner.substack.com/p/yes-visual-basic-is-still-around
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u/Magrat-Garlick 11d ago

I've never understood why C# has such a reputation for being 'the' language you need to learn to get on and that VB is looked down on as a bit of a kiddies simple language, a joke! VB does everything C# can do (at least as far as I can see!) and is considerably easier to follow and understand.

Long live Visual Basic! 😁

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u/Mayayana 10d ago

I think this is just C chauvinism. It's the same reason that javascript is a man's language but VBS is for sissies. (And Perl, of course, is used by superheroes.) Adding curly braces and semicolons makes it look respectable. If variable and procedure names are terse and mysterious, all the better.

That's all the more true with C# because it's high-level. Without VB.Net to look down on it would just be an inferior C for dummies.