CNet:
Market researcher Evans Data on Tuesday said 52 percent of software developers surveyed use Visual Basic today, but 43 percent of them plan to move to other languages, including Java and C#, a Java-like language developed by Microsoft.
There used to be a huge learning curve difference between Visual C++ and Visual Basic. Now it’s just about as easy to learn C# as it is to learn VB.NET. VB.NET has become more complex and C# is much easier than C++ (at least at first glance).