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I think it's really cool to see a successful example of modernizing a VB.NET codebase so that it too can play with the cool kids. I never really understood the disdain for VB.NET in the developer community, since the language has all kinds of neat little tricks up its sleeve. Kudos for pushing the counter-narrative.

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This tool started off as Excel VBA a million years ago, and has made trips through VB6 on its way to VB.NET.

The language is ... ehhhhh. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. There are things I like, but occasional items that are awful. Sometimes at the same time.

shrug I've been doing this too long to get worked up about language. Of the tools I own nowadays, VB.NET is somewhere in the middle of the pack.

> Sometimes at the same time.

This is how you know you're really working with something :)

A really great article by a friend of mine (and ex-VB.NET PM) is here. Really cool to go through it from time to time: https://anthonydgreen.net/2019/02/12/exhausting-list-of-diff...

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