[dustinmoris]

Similar yet different problem for F#. It's officially supported and F# does get included more than VB, but I feel like that is mostly only down to a very vocal minority.

I think someone at Microsoft who is fundamentally in power of the .NET platform has secretly decided that VB and F# must go away in the long term. All innovation is done for C# only. VB will basically die when current VB developers die. Nothing at Microsoft advertises for new developers to learn VB. F# is just being fed small inexpensive tokens every now and then to keep the F# community quiet until one day C# has inherited all functional paradigms from F# including partial function application and syntactic sugar like optionally omitting semi colons and then F# developers will be told to get lost as well.