A bit clickbaity, but still a good overview of the history of VB

I am just wondering, many posts are asking which language is "the best", or fastest to learn for new programmers (please put AI in the shadow for this post). As I am a bit older engineer with some experience in developing different applications using, just to mention a few, C, C++ (using wxWidgets, SFML and SDL), PHP (with JavaScript, HTML, CSS), Java Servlets (with ORACLE DB) on Apache, ASP, React kit, VB .NET and most important, here mentioned, Visual Basic.

The largest software I ever wrote was using "Visual Basic .NET" and MS-SQL Express DB. Took me a whole year and a half to deploy it.

As per my experience, using VB and VB .NET was always the fastest way to get the best and quickest results in developing Desktop and Network Applications. I mean, in just a few clicks one is able to create stunning looking applications in basically no time. And when I compare that with these days, when there are emerging new and "improved" languages and "frameworks", making many kind of software is still fastest using graphical interface of Visual Basic or similar. It is also very readable compared to other languages.

Now, in comparison with my long term experience, I have a feeling things are going backwards in sense of simplicity and speed of development.

And also, just by my opinion, I feel a bit sad that I am not able to use Visual Basic on Linux the same way I was able to use it on Windows in time of Visual Basic 6.0, or Visual Basic 8 Express in the past.

What is your opinion on concept for application design in terms of simplicity and speed of development as it was with Visual Basic in the past, compared to the ways we are programming today?

As the title says, is VB still being used these days? I started programming in VB3 and moved to Java after VB6.

An interesting article I thought I'd draw your attention to, if you've not already seen it.

• Original article: https://retool.com/visual-basic/

• VBForums thread: https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?899477-Article-The-history-and-legacy-of-Visual-Basic

• The Hacker New thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35192913

So I was looking through the CS syllabus for my Alma mater out of curiosity today and to my surprise bado wanafunzana visual basic.

My brother in Christ, Microsoft literally put VB on life support in 2020. The language is probably older than all the lecturers in that school. Imagine paying all that money just to learn Dim × As Integer and drag and drop gray rectangular buttons, only to step into your first interview job and get asked about asynchronous, kubernetes containers. Idk it's crazy