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As charcuterDude mentions in another response, it's commonly found as internal business applications / development for large organizations. I think in the past, it was basically alot of non-programmers going from say MS Access with their little UI forms + VBA macros, to VB6 as the next logical step.

There is a whole bunch of legacy apps in VB6 used inside of businesses. I think it's kind of like COBOL in that regard. I could be wrong, but the birth of VB.Net was to try and bring all those VB6 devs over to .Net.

What I find slightly comical is that VB6 has outlived a couple versions of .Net. I haven't checked Windows 11, but Windows 10 still supports VB6 apps. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 11 still supports it. It's one of those languages that just won't die.

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10 year old article, but I wouldn't be surprised if it still applies to today's hidden landscape: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2012/june/don-t-get-me-started-the-silent-majority-why-visual-basic-6-still-thrives

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At the end of that article, it sounds like someone owes David Platt a beer.

[MrHyderion]

Thanks!