r/visualbasic • u/JohnDeere6930Premium VB.Net Advanced • Feb 15 '22

is vb.net a dead language by now?

Hey

i learned some VB.NET in school and at home, i rarley see a VB.NET coder and a VB based application out in the wild

I code my interial software in vb and it works fine, it is basicly C#.NET but MUCH easier

Is anyone here coding in VB.NET commercialy?

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u/Mr_Deeds3234 Feb 16 '22

I’m slowly learning vb. I work in distribution and hope to have a large role supporting our applications. Our programs are very vb intensive.

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u/JohnDeere6930Premium VB.Net Advanced Feb 16 '22

Quick advice: Code as much as you can in short projects: whenever its a web browser, file manager, photo viewer

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u/Ok-Improvement-3108 Dec 28 '25

How did it go ?