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qingcharles on March 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming lang...

If the support was still there I'd still be using VB.NET.

I've coded professionally in a dozen languages, including a lot of time in x86 assembler, C++ etc.

Still like VB.NET better than any other. To me, it was the most readable code.

aqueueaqueue on March 6, 2025 | [–]

You may like Python! At least the syntax.

wglb on March 4, 2025 | [–]

Is it not still supported?

qingcharles on March 4, 2025 | | [–]

It is, but it's really on life support. It's supported for legacy development in the most part. There are so few people coding in it now you'll never see any example or tutorial .NET code in VB.NET.

drewnoakes on March 4, 2025 | | [–]

it is still supported and developed.

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