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Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft
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."
Yeah, it's like all those people that whine about offshoring.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
I don't get it. How can something as trite as Visual Basic can be called "programming"????
Shouldn't this be in the Humor section? No, really.
I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
Some time after the dotcom bubble blew up, I was forced by unfortunate circunstances to join a VB-only developing team. That was a time when all the tech companies in my country were going bankrupt or massively firing people. I had to take the task and shut up. It lasted for a whole year.
I've never been so unhappy in my life. For the first time, I was ashamed of telling people what I did for a living.
Now my job is very boring, but at least I can walk with my head straight.
I still say tough shit. These are the same companies who ignored everyone warning about single-vendor dominance, and who decided that the speed-to-market of VB was worth it, because Microsoft isn't going to go away, right? You tied yourself inextricably to a single major vendor who wants you to be a recurring revenue stream and not a one-timer. Now you're seeing the downside of it. Maybe next time people will think a little bit more about future-proofing.
So basically you think VB is great because you can't do any real work with it, but it's very fine for those who don't know what they're doing to create applications that don't work.
Funny, those are my issues against VB.