微软 .NET 团队宣布 Visual Basic 停止更新，VB 编程即将谢幕

Visual Basic 停止更新

2020 年 3 月 11 号，微软 .NET 团队在《Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0》博客中提到会在 .NET 5 上继续支持 Visual Basic，但未来不会继续发展 VB 语言了，仅在 .NET Core 和 .NET Framework 上维持 VB 的稳定性和兼容性。

One of the major benefits of using Visual Basic is that the language has been stable for a very long time. The significant number of programmers using Visual Basic demonstrates that its stability and descriptive style is valued. Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language. This supports language stability and maintains compatibility between the .NET Core and .NET Framework versions of Visual Basic. Future features of .NET Core that require language changes may not be supported in Visual Basic. Due to differences in the platform, there will be some differences between Visual Basic on .NET Framework and .NET Core.

曾经 VB 依托 Windows 操作系统的广泛群众基础，桌面程序风靡一时，拥有几百万开发者群体，势头盖过其他竞争对手。

但随着 Java 在互联网潮流下大放异彩，C# 语言的蓬勃发展，功能集上越来越同质化，使得 VB 编程逐渐失去开发者的亲睐。

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