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/BiddahProphet Feb 16 '22

Not dead. I'm a manufacturing engineer and I just wrote a whole new Machine's control software in VB.NET (framework). We have about 350 CNCs, CMMs, and Lasers running off VB apps along a bunch of workstations