(Oct 4, 2020 01:44 AM)Exalted Wrote:  I didn't know they were? I develop in Visual Basic in my own time and for my job. Rather get laughed at than not make money I guess.

(Oct 4, 2020 01:49 AM)ethelooking Wrote:  right. Maybe just focus on our work first

(Oct 4, 2020 01:51 AM)Exalted Wrote:  Absolutely, don't focus on the hate. Improve your skill, make money, and live life!

• It looks different from other languages. It is more verbose than others. A lot of people do not like that, and prefer the C-like syntax.
  


• Other languages are much more popular nowadays. Visual Basic has roots in the Basic language, which is old and hardly ever used anymore.
  


• Visual Basic has always been a "second class citizen" for languages that targets .NET. C# gets much more attention by Microsoft than VB does with regards to updates. The majority of .NET itself is written in C#, not in VB.
  

(Oct 4, 2020 10:23 AM)I cry blood Wrote:  I've gotten mocked for writing in Visual Basic a few times. Mainly by people who have never written in it themselves. Maybe since the word basic is used, or maybe because other .net languages exist like C#. Hard to say really. I personally love it. Making sleek UIs, nice controls, etc. Don't be discouraged haha.

(Oct 4, 2020 01:36 AM)ethelooking Wrote:  I don't think a programming language is born - for no good reason.

I hope that is true.

can you give me the reason?

(Oct 5, 2020 08:36 AM)slaugtherman64bites Wrote:  it's because it's not a real programming language. It's more of a scripting and framework type of language geared to people don't know programming or don't really want to learn how to code.  VB is good to make software that's already on the market but it' hard to create anything new. it's a good place to start but if you call yourself a programmer or a software engineer with only knowledge of the VB you will be laughed at.

Wikipedia Wrote:Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language from Microsoft known for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use.[1][2] Visual Basic was derived from BASIC and enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.

(Oct 4, 2020 01:00 PM)Washi Wrote:  Some of the reasons I have heard over the past years include:

• It looks different from other languages. It is more verbose than others. A lot of people do not like that, and prefer the C-like syntax.
  


• Other languages are much more popular nowadays. Visual Basic has roots in the Basic language, which is old and hardly ever used anymore.
  


• Visual Basic has always been a "second class citizen" for languages that targets .NET. C# gets much more attention by Microsoft than VB does with regards to updates. The majority of .NET itself is written in C#, not in VB.
  

Personally, I think VB.NET is a great language, and am very happy that I can write code in it. And even though I do not use VB.NET a lot anymore, to this day I still use the same principles that I have learnt while coding in VB.NET.

I think that a lot of people are very religious about their choice of programming language. Everyone has their preferences for (a) certain language(s), but in my opinion a good programmer doesn't care that much about the language, and is able to switch and apply the same principles in any programming language of the same paradigm.

(Oct 4, 2020 02:26 PM)iaminitforthememes Wrote:  Another interesting point is that Visual Basic was (maybe still is) taught in some schools in countries which have mandatory computer science classes for elementary schools hence many people might recognize it as something designed "for children".

I don't know why you would care about this though. The language may be considered legacy but imagine someone mentioning programming in COBOL just a year ago. Wouldn't you laugh your ass off? Well, not since Covid started and everybody suddenly realized how many society-critical systems still use COBOL (talking US here) for their underlying business logic.

(Oct 5, 2020 09:33 AM)Washi Wrote:  Funny meme.

Straight from Wikipedia: