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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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VB.NET isn't all that uncommon - it isn't exactly Fortran, and it's still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he's just used to it...
It is not, and I've heard of people preferring it even. Just not me. In my eyes, it's just a worse version of the C#.NET aspx views that might make OC shudder again.
Maybe more to your tastes, we also still have COBOL systems. Not quite Fortran old, but close