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POAre VB.NET Developers Less Curious? Standardizing on VB.NET
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copied!<p>I'm asking this question as someone who works for a company with a 70% to 75% VB.NET developer community. I would say 80% of those developers do not know what an OOD pattern is. I'm wondering if this is the best thing for the health of my company's development efforts?</p> <p>I'm looking at the tag counts on:<br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/tags">https://stackoverflow.com/tags</a><br> There are currently:<br> 12175 .NET questions<br> 18630 C# questions<br> 2067 VB.NET questions </p> <p>Checking Amazon, it seems like there are:<br> 51 C# Wrox books<br> 21 VB.NET Wrox books </p> <p>On CodePlex there are:<br> 979 Projects tagged C#<br> 136 Projects tagged VB.NET </p> <p>There is definitely less materials to learn from if you wanted to be a VB.NET developer. What would be a company's advantage to standardizing on VB.NET and hiring VB.NET developers? How does Microsoft answer this question? </p> <p>Is the only two arguments: </p> <ol> <li>We had these VB6 programmers and lets make them comfortable </li> <li>XML Literals</li> </ol> <p>If you work for a company that has completely standardized on VB.NET, can you post an answer explaining the pragmatic or technical reasons why they made that choice?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong><br> More stats - O'Reilly Radar<br> <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-22.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">State of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages</a></p>

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