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Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft

Posted by Hemos on from the the-battle-of-the-programmers dept.

daria42 writes "More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. Developers claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages."

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  1. Re:VB6 isNot VB.Net and VB.Net is C# by pclminion · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Companies that have invested 50 man year in the development of VB6 applications are now faced with the fact that they will require to trow in another 10 man year just to make the transition to VB.Net.

    Aww, poor babies. They picked a proprietary framework sourced by a single vendor, they are now reaping the consequences.

    The developers who can transition to something new will prove their worth. The ones left bleeding in the wreckage were never really developers in the first place.