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Study: Visual Basic use on the decline

Posted by timothy on from the 113-percent-of-all-statistics dept.

santos_douglas writes "ZDNet news has this story on a study by market researcher Evans Data showing that 'professional' use of Microsoft's Visual Basic language is down significantly. The study pegs VB use at 52%, but of those surveyed 43% intend to switch soon. Of those 31% intend to use Java, and 39% C#, the remaining 30% are not described. The reason: '"As they leave Visual Basic 6.0 behind, developers are choosing languages that help them work more easily with emerging technologies such as wireless and Web services development," said Esther Schindler, senior analyst at Evans Data, in a statement.'"

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  1. Like they have a choice? by Violet+Null · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not like there's going to be a VB7, y'know. Since VB is proprietary, and it's owner isn't interested in continuing it, of course it will go the way of the dodo.

    The natural progression is to migrate from VB to VB.Net, but since the step from VB.Net to C# is so tiny, most people, it seems, aren't even going to bother with VB.Net.

  2. Re:Switching from VB by hswerdfe · · Score: 2, Informative

    eclipse has intelli sense. ..Its a Free, Java IDE
    with plugins for other languages, and syntax.
    I'm not sure if there is a plugin for perl..(I never looked...but if there isn't you could make one...:)

    so does Kdevelop (I am told). and your suppostded to be able to write pluggins for that one to...but I wouldn't know.

    --
    --meh--
  3. Re:would like to see it go by t482 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out a quick faq I wrote http://www.xminc.com/linux/wxpython.html. I would check out kylix from borland or wxWindows.

    Moving from windows to linux development you are confronted with a myriad of options. QT vs GTK+? Which language should I use: c/c++/java/perl/tcl/python/ruby or javascript? Should I use a commercial/proprietary layout/rad tool (QT or Kylix) or an open source one? What about Mozilla? My background was primarily in programming Visual Basic and Lotus Notes(Basic, Java, c/c++ api). Where should I start?