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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. Statistics by Ratbert42 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ... 43% intend to switch soon.

    Yawn. Let me know when they've actually switched. If you took a survey here two years ago we'd have been 75% Java soon. Yet here we are, two years later, and it's more like 5%.

  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.