Your thoughts on Visual Basic .NET? - eviltoast

Hey, community.

This one might probably trigger some of you. But just a question that comes out of the blue: What are your thoughts on it?

I first learned programming back in the day with Visual Basic 2008. Nowadays, I can program with C#, Java, PHP and some other languages rather well (I’m no professional, though), but I often come back to Visual Basic, because I’m just so used to it. Even though it’s not that often, because I’m a Linux user.

But let’s say I need a small program for Windows real quick? VB.NET is gonna be my choice. Right now, I’m implementing a board game server + client for the game of go (also called baduk or wei’qi) and I’m making really good progress.

I personally think that people should just use what they want to use. I don’t get the hate for PHP and some other languages and I think this gate-keeping and god complex some developers have is really annoying. Makes me want to use VB.NET even harder.

I also don’t like to jump on board with every new and upcoming programming language or library, just to be cool.

I’d also like to emphasize that I’m not creating software for a living right now. I do have a small company for a little bit of freelance work, but that’s just money on the side that comes in by creating really small projects.

  • crysisaverted@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wrote a ton of vb6 in the 90s. Then vb.net 2003 in… Well that date. Then moved to c# after holding on for awhile.

    My memories of that time:

    • its higher mental load to do the right, safe thing in vb.net vs the same objective in c#.
    • both early versions of both languages had really similar capabilities, as they both compiled to the same IL code targeting the same VM.
    • these differences obviously moved apart as the years went by as the cost to innovate in 2 places is wasted effort… So language enhancements went into c#.

    These days you might as well learn pascal as vb… If you want to know where to invest your time in learning i would suggest C#, java or golang for backend. Or typescript. Typescript is good.