On: The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community

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what if they don't want to?

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Are they going to pay Microsoft enough to maintain VB.NET just for them?

Or they could re-implement and maintain VB.NET themselves?

Those are their options. You can't just demand that someone provide you a product if they don't want to.

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They're welcome to maintain their own ecosystem. Microsoft made it clear over a decade ago that VB.NET was symptomatic treatment at best.