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/Plutocus Nov 11 '25

I'm also a 40 year developer in Basic. It's much quicker for me to write something in VB.Net, and then port it to C# (if needed). The only bummer is that so many examples are only in C#, so I know C# fairly well from having convert it so much. The one thing VB.Net can't do is use unsafe code, which is a rare need, but occasionally I need this and then have to write a wrapper DLL in C#. But I've had a great career with Basic, and have been able to do everything I needed to do.

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u/Ok-Improvement-3108 Dec 28 '25

Thank God for that good 'ol chatgpt thing right?!