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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. Re:Switching from VB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tired of paying for the MS IDE?

    I am a UNIX Perl programmer, and would gladly pay the $100 just for the VB IDE ability to complete object method and property names with alone.

    I hate windows development, but I do like the IDE.

    The ActiveState IDE is lame.

  2. C# the java killer? More like VB Killer! by pr0c · · Score: 4, Interesting

    C# is the perfect blend of vb java and c++, it has rad as well as power and even cross platform support coming up quick (http://www.go-mono.com). C# has a very good free IDE (SharpDevelop) which is also going to be cross platform.

    So what does c# have going against it? m$ haters that won't look past the fact that c# came from m$. I don't like m$ either but c# will join the ranks of c++ and c in regards to a publised standard language unlike java.

  3. First step, take it out of the schools by rumpledstiltskin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend of mine at the University of Houston actually had one of his first CS classes done in Visual Basic. I was flabbergasted. Admittedly, U of H is not a top tier school, but surely they have standards?