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Re:TIOBE Index March 2018 – Ruby replaces Delphi in top 10 by megaman22 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:36PM (#16546976)
There's not really a compelling reason for VB.NET to even exist at this point. It'd be lovely to have whatever effort is expended on that shifted to F#.
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Re:TIOBE Index March 2018 – Ruby replaces Delphi in top 10 by catach on Thursday March 08, 2018 @04:17PM (#16547685)
The great hidden mass of folks scripting Excel spreadsheets strikes me as unlikely to migrate to anything else, anytime soon.
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Re:TIOBE Index March 2018 – Ruby replaces Delphi in top 10 by megaman22 on Friday March 09, 2018 @07:38AM (#16551293)
To be fair, those users are also using VBA, which is still in the VB6 line, not the .NET VB. Visual Basic on .NET is almost identical with C#, just with different syntax, and is a second-class citizen with regards to documentation and resources.
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Re:TIOBE Index March 2018 – Ruby replaces Delphi in top 10 by tonyedgecombe on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:26PM (#16547355)
I'm sure the VB.NET programmers would disagree.
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