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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by ycuser2 on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:43AM (#31284454)
Microsoft does not develop VB.NET further.
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:53AM (#31293081)
They do, but not adding features to please us language geeks, rather what makes sense to interop with .NET libraries, CLS compliant.

Roslyn for VB.NET still gets more love than F# across .NET workloads.

Now it is true that they could rename CLR into C# Language Runtime, given the extent of effort that C# gets, versus VB.NET, F# and C++/CLI.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by zozbot234 on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:49AM (#31284507)
Isn't the Roslyn compiler open source? It might be possible to maintain a fork and bring the language to parity with upcoming C#/.NET features.
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