Quote Originally Posted by kareninstructor View Post
That is not a good attitude if you are a developer with say five or more years left in the profession. Some developers will coast by on a given language but what happens when it's mandated to use another programming language and said developer can not get up to speed in time? There are always signals way before a mandate comes down the road. Sure some can dictate that they will only work with one language yet that in many cases limits projects to write.

Don't get me wrong, I think VB.NET is a great language and may have many years left but it's really not what should be consider, instead where is my pay check coming from when mandated to jump ship on, in this case VB.

Where I work prerequisites are TypeScript, JQuery, C#, BootStrap, SASS Git Actions, EF Core, ASP.NET Core, unit testing, mocking for starters. Even mention VB of any edition will have a candidate not to make it to in person interviews. Same goes for four child companies. Total developers 200, not one using VB of any edition.

Now with that said I can expect a rebuttal or two :-)
this is your work niche!

Not giving up on a language brought python into fashion again, and what about IBM with its Watson? it is not a language listed in the ranking.

Don't say that a certain programming language is not worth it to people, don't just be based on the market, behind a language there is also science.