VB6 is DEAD!

[Niya]

Slow initial startup? that's it? no, it isn't. I still remember the first ATI control panel made with .NET. It was simply scaring!! "what is this, what did I do wrong, and only clicked that button...?". But it wasn't me, it was .NET fault.

Only a poor workman blames his tools. Cliche, I know but it definitely applies here. I get no problem with my VB.Net apps other than the typical errors we make as coders like off-by-one errors or null references.

.NET is newer than the "old" Win32, so maybe it relies on faster technology

You do know that ALL software in Windows uses the Win32 API right ? VB6 apps, .Net apps, Delphi apps. The VB6 runtime wraps these calls. The ActiveX components you may be using would also wrap these calls. The .Net Framework also wraps these calls. You can't escape Win32.

, but the principal factor is that .NET steals all the resources for itself

Typically my .Net apps use around 8 MB of memory. I have 2 GB of RAM with around 800 MB free at any given time. How is that even close to using all the resources ?

Don't you think that, had Classic VB been evolved till now, it would be a lot faster now than back in 2000? and less resource hungry than .NET? Please be serious if you answer to this.

Perhaps, but customers users don't really care about millisecond improvements as long as their favorite apps are fast enough.

.NET was a mistake, a big one, and Windows is suffering a lot because of that wrong move. C'mon, admit it, as M$ already did.

How can it be a failure when its been embraced by millions and MS still updates it to this day. Wishing for it to fail doesn't make it so. MS abandoned VB6 something like 15 or 16 years now. VB.Net was its successor. If it failed, then why don't you have a new VB6 ?