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With the difference that Visual Basic is an academic language full of needless features from Go's community point of view.

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Visual Basic is hardly academic; they is a tremendous amount of line-of-business code that has been written in VB over the past 25 years.

But yeah, Go dev do not see VB's features as being "features."

The point was that many of VB.NET features are what many in the community attack as being academic and not worthy of being adopted by Go.

Given that I have worked with VB long before .NET even existed, I have a broader view of it than just the more recent criticisms.

VB's biggest problem IMO is that it tried to compete with C# instead of maintaining its original raison d'être which was to be a highly productive tool that required very little programming skill to be able to start building real solutions for business use.

But I digress...

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