Thanks for the heads-up. 😀 It’s not that I consider VB.NET to be my favorite language. I just wanted to say that I don’t feel alright with all the “hate” that I’ve seen in the past when it comes to programming languages. I often see people ask what their first programming language should be and the “gatekeeping” answers are really annoying. Maybe gatekeeping isn’t even the right word…

Got it, but on the other hand (and as someone else commented): With the right settings, VB.NET can be en par with C#, for instance. They both compile to the same MCIL code, so it should really boil down to a matter of personal preference, right?

I feel that many people don’t know that and tend to think back to C64 Basic, etc. and just laugh it off.

I mostly use it for personal projects, yes. I also enjoy other “hated” languages like PHP and Java. To me, they’re just tools to accomplish a task. I also like to play the UNO reverse card: I personally hate projects that run with Electron, for instance. Such a waste of resources, things don’t integrate well into the DE, etc.

May I just ask how VB.NET code isn’t maintainable? Not attacking you here, just out of curiosity. My board game server and client together amount to multiple thousand lines of code, as they’re very feature rich and at the moment, it’s not really hard for me to maintain things. It’s not public yet, though. Still active development phase.

I can use both VB.NET syntax and also C# syntax just fine. I’d even go as far and state that, apart from the syntax, VB.NET is just as good as C# (after some settings adjustments, like Option Strict On, etc.).

I do understand that Visual Basic syntax is kinda alien, though.

That already exists. I personally think we should just continue where most of us left off on Reddit and don’t bother about it.