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		vibrolax on March 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic I had 7 years of C# experience in 2015 when I had to make an unanticipated job change. With some trepidation, I took a position with another company in the same industry whose codebase was all vb.net. I used Telerik's code converter a lot to bootstrap my proficiency with vb syntax. The boss said I could just write in C# if I wanted to, but I saw no need to make more mental work for the rest of the team.

hu3 on March 14, 2020 [–]

> The boss said I could just write in C# if I wanted to, but I saw no need to make more mental work for the rest of the team.

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