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    <p>The biggest problem that I see is because it requires everyone on the team to be very diverse (see Jon Skeet's answer). If you have a team of ten people and three know C# very well and some VB.NET, three know VB.NET very well and very little C#, and the other four know C++ very well, but are only okay on C# or VB.Net, can you imagine what kind of program they would write being multilanguage? It may turn out okay, but what if you lose a couple team members, time is of the essence, and say it was your C++ guys, now who is going to fix that code? Surely not the .NET guys who are not diverse in C++. This can cause a lot of problems.</p> <p>The second reason I see why applications are mostly single-language today is because when you reach a high number of lines of code, it's very nice to be able to follow the same flow, patterns, and see the same type of code throughout the system. Your brain does not have to switch between languages to figure something out, because you're already "thinking C#" for example.</p> <p>I have a friend who writes his user interfaces in VB.Net, and his backend code which he always stores in DLL's in C#. This is okay, VB.NET and C# work really well together, but say he needed to outsource it to someone to fix a segment of code where a bug was both in the VB.NET and C# code, well, he made to need to outsource two developers, one fluent in VB.NET, and the other in C#. This increases costs two-fold, as well as overhead when he could have just done it in one.</p> <p>I however, completely agree about applications that may use C++ for performance critical sections. There are times, where simply .NET may not be a good choice for a performance critical segment of code. This kind of code mixing is absolutely okay.</p> <p>In the long run, code mixing is not a bad thing. It can be good because it will help you as a developer become more diverse, change the way you think, and help you as a developer. But you must be prepared for more overhead, possibly costs, and maybe even some frustration along the way.</p> <p>Maybe a good idea for you, (if you're looking for this type of answer) would be to choose the language per technology. I personally write all my web apps (asp.net etc) in VB.NET. It's fast to write, it's easy to read and easy to maintain. And for the web, that's exactly what you want. All my desktop applications however get pushed into C#, because it's a stronger language in some aspects, and offers a few things VB.NET does not. Really, here this is all personal preference, but you get the idea.</p>
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