[HN Gopher] Update to the .NET Language Strategy ___________________________________________________________________ Update to the .NET Language Strategy Author : sebazzz Score : 23 points Date : 2023-02-07 10:25 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (devblogs.microsoft.com) (TXT) w3m dump (devblogs.microsoft.com) | mkozlows wrote: | TLDR: | | C# is our real language. | | F# is a thing that gets supported to the extent that unpaid | volunteers do the work. | | VB is in back-compat legacy support mode. | curiousgal wrote: | 2022 I started a new job where we mainly use C# and I have to | say, this is my favorite language now, especially with Visual | Studio and Reshaper. I've never felt so productive and at ease | while coding! | Someone1234 wrote: | I, too, like C#. | | What language did you come from? Java? | clouddrover wrote: | Sounds like Visual Basic will be a second-class citizen going | forward. | marssaxman wrote: | Visual Basic had already become a second-class citizen fifteen | years ago, when I worked on its compiler team. All the actual | design work happened in the C# world, and our job was just to | tag along and mimic whatever they had come up with. | | I had taken the talk of "co-evolution" at face value before | going to work there, but after seeing where devdiv actually put | its time and attention, that was clearly just a PR story meant | to keep VB users comfortable while their language faded away. | ripley12 wrote: | It has been for a very long time, and that's a reasonable | approach IMO. | | I say this as someone without most of the usual prejudice | against VB; I used to work in a large codebase that was half | VB.NET and half C#, and didn't mind VB. VB was a little more | verbose for some things, but after getting used to the syntax | the developer experience was basically the same in each | language (yes, with a few small exceptions like XML literals). | | Ultimately, that's the problem with VB; it's not different | enough from C# to really justify significant investments in | 2023. There are some die-hards who really like the VB syntax | but they're growing ever rarer. | lockhouse wrote: | Honestly, most people still using Visual Basic at this point | probably aren't itching for new features. Stability is a | feature itself when it comes to legacy code. | ricksmith1962 wrote: | Absolutely. Saying this as someone who codes 100% in VB | supporting applications that are 25+ years old. | | Honestly, I couldn't be happier with the language strategy as | I was wholly expecting VB to be discontinued. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-08 23:00 UTC)