I'm amazed at how many professional developers don't know the difference between VB6 and VB.Net. Most seem to equate the two (which I guess isn't surprising, if they never had direct experience with them).

We saw this with that StackOverflow survey recently, where perceptions about programming languages only asked about "Visual Basic", with no distinction between the two.

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Well to add something relevant for a change...

It might belong in a thread of its own but this looks curious:

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code IDE For Linux, Mac And Windows

While still quite immature, it suggests a possible direction at Microsoft.

Microsoft link: Why Visual Studio Code?
I'd be curious to hear other people's thoughts, but I played with it last week and was pretty disappointed. It's basically a crappier version of Notepad++, and IMO it needs a lot of improvements before anyone could use it for serious work. (Unless a person works solely with Node.js, I guess.)

I'm all for Microsoft's new direction, but I'm worried that this ongoing emphasis on "open development" is really just a cover for "pushing half-baked software out the door." Visual Studio Code should have baked for a few more months, I think.

(Also, whoever does their branding should be fired. "Visual Studio Code" is a ridiculously confusing name.)