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by deaddodo 1014 days ago
> When VB.NET came out, programmers hung on to their VB6 disks, and kept using it for easily another decade. By the time VB6 really reached the end of the road, its replacements (e.g., Python for me) were up to speed, and free.

VS6 was still the majority IDE well into the mid-00s, at least in an academic setting. I still remember getting handed an academic license DVD to use for my C++ courses in University around that time.

The disconnect between "classic" and ".NET" VS took a long time to break, I would say until about VS2008/2010.