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