I would not recommend VB.NET to anybody. The similarly to VBA is only very superficial and otherwise pretty much all attention is on C#.
Visual Basic is really not a good language. And it's essentially dead. Good luck finding examples, even sometimes on MSDN docs, using VB. Unless you also know C# and can translate between them, it's somewhat difficult to develop in VB.
I'm sort of surprised that Python on the CLR isn't more popular than it is; with the investments made in the DLR specifically for better dynamic language support, that seemed to be a natural move to me.
Re:Open Source .NET three years later
by module0000 on Sunday December 24, 2017 @11:09AM
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What's the appeal of CLR's python implementation when compared to the C python implementation?
You can interop with other
.NET code. That's very attractive sometimes.
Re:Open Source .NET three years later
by YawningAngel on Sunday December 24, 2017 @06:48PM
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No GIL
and don't forget VB.net, which is an excellent language for non IT professional novice programmers, particularly if they come form VBA. .net provides a good language for novices that gives access to most of the flexibility and power of the framework (outside Xamarin basically).