Is visual basic up to date?

Question

Visual Basic

Is it worth spending time deep learning VB(VBA) and in particular the .NET platform?

Answer 1

Offhand, the last stronghold of VB is macros in MS Office.
.NET is the most alive, but the main language, perhaps, is C #.
Whether it is worth spending time on this is up to you. Macros in VB will not be translated for a long time. And the farther, the less often there are people who are able to understand them :)

Answer 2

In theory, no one can forbid you to use VB for .NET development, but you should remember that you rarely work alone, and your colleagues most likely write code for .NET in C #, and do not feel a burning desire to support half-dead scribbles language.

Answer 3

Visual Basic is relevant, but very niche. It usually makes quick crutches and patches when there is not enough time / money for a serious decision.
The trick of VB is that such crutches live for years and are being written even right now.
But offhand, I can't remember a single VB project on which several people would work and which they would actively develop. These are advanced macros for solving problems on the spot.
.NET is completely different. Demanded, relevant and so on. But there is mostly C sharp.
So study .NET completely, study superficially in VB, there is probably no point in going too deep if you can spend this time on C #

Answer 4

It is relevant, however, in the post-Soviet space it is somehow less popular than in the West, we have more everything in C#. But VB.NET differs little from it in its capabilities, but switching from one language to another, if necessary, will not be a big problem