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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by viraptor on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:06PM (#37474345)
> The sweet, sweet With keyword.

VB.net supports With though?

> Minimal runtime downloads to install apps locally, which also produced tiny, performant executables.

.net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days so you can deploy one exe without shipping your own runtime. Yes, officially you shouldn't, but there's so much stuff that depends on it now.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by sn_master on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:46PM (#37476117)
> .net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

Yes, but that wasn't the case back in the mid-2000s when VB6 was dying and no one wanted to migrate to VB.Net

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by wcoenen on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:30AM (#37477515)
> net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

There is no "net framework 2.7":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration...

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by viraptor on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @02:57AM (#37477651)
Typo - I meant 4.7. Although it looks like they finally moved to 4.8 in w11.
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