More move to C#

[Gunawan Hadikusumo]

I just notice that there are more more companies looking for VB.NET programmer instead of C# recently.
Is there something going on i dont know such as (paranoid thought) that Microsoft will not support
VB.NET anymore ? Any info ?

[Brandon Betances]

alot of companies have old vb6/5 apps and think its easier to migrate them to .NET. its not.

[jmsides]

The move to C# was/is driven by developers. As companies discover the
benefits of VB over C# there is a move back to VB. VB is somewhat
easier for the less skilled developer to use, mostly because of the
Visual Studio IDE. For a company it does not make since to chase
technology for technologies sake. The bottom line is most important,
not the language. It is not something new, it is something old.
Check http://visualbasic.about.com/ for the same subject.
Lots of companies do have lots of old vb6 code and the used VB for a
reason. The reasons have not changed.
There has been a running joke concerning C#. "Why learn to do C#?
Because it pays better."
Now for all those C# bigots, If I am wrong then VB should be fading
away?
DON'T put all of your brain cells into C#. You need VB in your tool
box.

[Peter Smith]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM, jmsides <jms...@tx.rr.com> wrote:

Lots of companies do have lots of old vb6 code and they used VB for a

reason.  The reasons have not changed.

Sure they have. The only reason for using VB is that it was the only V language. That has changed. WTF are YOU thinking is the 'reasons' for using VB back in the days of VB5/6?

[Cerebrus]

Not sure I agree with those reasons. I think the primary reason is
that VB as a language has grown greatly partly to keep pace with C#.
As such, devs with a classic VB background find it much easier to get
past syntactical barriers. Crossing the OOP barrier requires
significant psychological bounds, however.

On Dec 28, 4:58 am, jmsides <jmsi...@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> The move to C# was/is driven by developers.  As companies discover the
> benefits of VB over C# there is a move back to VB.  VB is somewhat
> easier for the less skilled developer to use, mostly because of the
> Visual Studio IDE.  For a company it does not make since to chase
> technology for technologies sake.  The bottom line is most important,
> not the language.  It is not something new, it is something old.

> Checkhttp://visualbasic.about.com/for the same subject.