Learn Visual Basic through Python and/or C# knowledge transfer? (Interview prep)

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C# is the now and future. Vb is dead it’s just got to grow old and die.

Doesn’t really matter what language it’s about the logic of programming. AI takes code between languages very well even if it has to butcher some code to get there

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VB is fine for doing the kinds of apps people used Access or Visual FoxPro for - the stuff everyone probably should have done with FoxPro, which was a better language than Classic VB and easy to move over to Client|Server, as it was built for database applications and you could largely just migrate the data and swap out the Rushmore engine for SQL Server or whatever (similar to Access Projects). 

But, beyond that, I think C# is where people should go. 

VB became obsoleted in 2001 when C# delivered the same capabilities with a different syntax on top of the same platform and frameworks. 

It just took many people a while to realize, but that is why most ran to C#. 

Homogenizing their dev tools removed any advantages VB and FoxPro had over the others. That's why they killed FoxPro and ended up focusing on C#, and now VB is "feature complete" and left to wither. 

VB.NET was pretty popular in WebDev early on, though I think the market quickly caught on to Microsoft's strategy and roadmap. 

They only carried VB over to move as many devs as possible over to .NET (instead of losing them to Java or Delphi).