@scottalanmiller said in Why Visual Basic Is the Worst Programming Language for Your Project SAMIT Video:

@Pete-S said in Why Visual Basic Is the Worst Programming Language for Your Project SAMIT Video:

Anyway, you couldn't really do any serious applications with gwbasic. It was followed by qbasic a little later.

I was in time to get to do both. Still have the original GWBASIC manuals!

I just did a little with both. But this was around the same time that Borland released Turbo Pascal and at least in my view it became the serious language to make PC applications with in that era. It was almost instant compilation and it had a very good IDE.

.NET is great as a platform and C# is great as a language. F# is really sweet too. Microsoft has great language tools, in general. Since MS started off pretty much as a language company before anything else this is a bit of their wheelhouse.

All of our current desktop applications are VB.Net, but as we begin to update, all future code will be C#.

Granted, we have a lot of legacy code and simple updates will not always rate a rewrite to C# due to labor costs.