Visual Basic.NET Exceeded C# Popularity in TIOBE in July 2018
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Visual Basic.NET is a great programming language, so powerful as C#, but more fun and readable to program with it. So finally after so many years VB.NET has surpassed C# in TIOBE Index (July 2018) See Picture Here (July 2018) www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
About time a language with modern syntax-parsing beats out one of those C-style languages with syntax still stuck in the 70's. I mean, semicolons at the end of lines?! Why does any compiler need to be told where the end of the line is these days?! Why the need for "=" and "==" when a compiler can be written to figure it out based on the context?! Compiler design is so advanced today compared to the era these junk-syntax languages were developed in, there's no reason for keeping this legacy garbage and inventing new languages that are restricted by it.
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It's about time. Even though the shop I currently work at doesn't use it, I still think it was better at somethings than C#, but than again C# is better at other things. it's a bit of a trade off. Honestly, for years I think most VB devs searched for C# articles because that's what everyone else did, you got to be fluent in both. Pick up a graphics or the latest DotNet framework book, it was likely going to be only published in C#. One of my biggest complaints about VB.net was treating chars differently than C# did. C# treats them like an integer, as they should. So making hardware communication protocol libraries was always kind of a pain.
C# treats chars like an integer?? What happens if they're non-ASCII? What if they're unicode? Sounds to me like it's treating them wrong.
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C# treats chars like an integer?? What happens if they're non-ASCII? What if they're unicode? Sounds to me like it's treating them wrong.
It's still an integer at the end of the day. you can still: 'A'+5 to get a new value. this is not possible in VB with out using Chr() and Asc() functions. Encryption and binary messaging use this feature a lot.
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Hmmm there are some strange entries in the top 20, including VB, presumably the version that has been dead for over a decade.
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unfortunately there is a ton of old business apps out there with no plans to be completely rewritten. I personally know of a couple companies reliant on accounting software written (supported and still added to) all in VB6.
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georani wrote:
Visual Basic.NET is a great programming language
Nothing which includes
On Error Resume Next
Can be described as great, or even as a programming language.
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that was a hold over from VB6 days. when the first VB.net came out, it supported a upgrade wizard to moved VB6 to VB.Net. Way to many devs in VB6 relied on this because there was no structured error handling. They should drop support for some of the old baggage, but MS will likely keep it forever. C# was lucky as it was new and fresh and (mostly) had none of the burdens of an older sibling.
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SuperBase! Way ahead of its time.
It really was, not many would remember it though. An example of a product destroyed by better marketing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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unfortunately there is a ton of old business apps out there with no plans to be completely rewritten. I personally know of a couple companies reliant on accounting software written (supported and still added to) all in VB6.
I know of 2 written by me :-O , they are so mature that they have not required support in years, I would have trouble supporting something so old.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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georani wrote:
but more fun and readable to program with it.
Nurse! Quick! Here we have another one that believes his own propaganda!
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While there is certainly a valid point in your statement the overall outcome is utter bs (sorry). Tiobe is really a joke benchmark especially when compared to StackOverflow. Just compare the top spot: Java? JavaScript not even in top 5 (the most used PL running on essentially all devices and platforms)? As every of these benchmarks is a lie (strongly depending on the sources, custom metrics, and attitudes of the creators) a survey across *all* developers seems to be the most reliable indicator about the *popularity* of PL.
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Just because JavaScript is the most used doesn't mean it is popular. That's two different things. I've read many posts where people complain about JavaScript. That doesn't mean they aren't using it, though.
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Are we talking relative or absolute here? It makes a huge difference. Example: If, e.g., JS is used 10x as much as X and X is liked by 100% of its developers, while JS is only liked by 20% of their developers, its still twice as popular. Of course you are right, but JS *is* popular and *is* most used. There are only two kinds of programming languages: Those that aren't used and those that people complain about.
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Visual Basic.NET is a great programming language, so powerful as C#, but more fun and readable to program with it. So finally after so many years VB.NET has surpassed C# in TIOBE Index (July 2018) See Picture Here (July 2018) www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
interesting that the line over last 5 years for vb .net has been going up month after month. Are they teaching it in schools or something? Maybe like someone else mentioned, is it the old vb6 projects that over time being ported over to vb.net for newer servers with minimal reworking?
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Visual Basic.NET is a great programming language, so powerful as C#, but more fun and readable to program with it. So finally after so many years VB.NET has surpassed C# in TIOBE Index (July 2018) See Picture Here (July 2018) www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
In a recent survey amongst real programmers, C# was at number 1, Rexx was at #2, FORTRAN-77 was at #3 and JavaScript (with jQuery) came in at #4. VBx or VB.NET didn't even make the list.
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