Why is microsoft giving up on Visual Basic?

Question

Is it just me, or does anyone else think Visual basic should continue to be supported? I am just a casual programmer and VB made my life so much easier than all the damn C type languages including javascript and php, etc.. They all have way too many curly braces and brackets and it drives me insane. VB is so much more english like and easier to use.. Maybe I'm not in the majority, but I wish MS would continue to support and upgrade VB..

Just my two pence. :-)
Tim

Answer 1

Hi @HoosierDaddy1961 ,
Microsoft has not given up on VB .net at present, and VB will still be updated with .NET in the future.

Can anyone in simple words explain if we can continue feel comfortable with VB.NET ?

Shall we forget and start turning to c#?

The .NET team didn't seem to think so, ending its announcement with: "Visual Basic is a great language and a productive development environment. The future of Visual Basic will include both .NET Framework and .NET Core and will focus on stability, the application types listed above, and compatibility between the .NET Core and .NET Framework versions of Visual Basic."

Microsoft: 'We Do Not Plan to Evolve Visual Basic as a Language'
Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0
Best Regards.
Jiachen Li

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