VB is de facto dead, declared legacy in 2008 & latest major release was in 1998. VB.NET is a new incompatible language, everyone invested in VB needed to retrain skills & rewrite existing software.
It was a huge uproar in the community, but MS didn't care enough & this goes against TS idea that the community can stop a major company doing this sort of thing. It can happen & it will happen again.
However that does not mean that you shouldn't invest resources in a corporate language, it just a false argument to think it can't die.
It was a huge uproar in the community, but MS didn't care enough & this goes against TS idea that the community can stop a major company doing this sort of thing. It can happen & it will happen again.
However that does not mean that you shouldn't invest resources in a corporate language, it just a false argument to think it can't die.
Edit: changed disappear to die