Re:What programming languages are used most on weekends?
by tim333 on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:43AM
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I think part of their problem with weekend developers stems from dropping VB6. They used to be "the largest block of developers in the world" [1] and then around 2003 they made
"... Visual Basic.NET not backwards-compatible with VB 6.0. This was literally the first time in living memory that when you bought an upgrade to a Microsoft product, your old data (i.e. the code you had written in VB6) could not be imported perfectly and silently. It was the first time a Microsoft upgrade did not respect the work that users did using the previous version of a product." [2]
Personally I'd hate that stuff. Probably why most of the weekend languages are open source and can't be discontinued by some corporate overlord.
"... Visual Basic.NET not backwards-compatible with VB 6.0. This was literally the first time in living memory that when you bought an upgrade to a Microsoft product, your old data (i.e. the code you had written in VB6) could not be imported perfectly and silently. It was the first time a Microsoft upgrade did not respect the work that users did using the previous version of a product." [2]
Personally I'd hate that stuff. Probably why most of the weekend languages are open source and can't be discontinued by some corporate overlord.
[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-slow-brain-death-of-vb-net...
[2] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...