The Past Ahead

Published 16 February 05 10:03 AM | despos

My pal Alberto pointed me here. And what's interesting there? The chart below. Which gives new strength to that little voice buried in my mind under a pile of Whidbey slides and cool demos. (And I temporarily ceased any interest in Avalon and Indigo.) What's the voice saying? A good deal of VB6, classic ASP, and--trust me--even ASP.NET 1.x <g> applications are still out there: up, running, and requiring attention and efforts. That's the real world!


Sure, I love VS 2005 but lately I've been making myself quite comfortable with the old and clunky VS 2003. Too.

Comments

# Paul Whitaker said on February 16, 2005 06:04 AM:

Interesting study. I contend that it's not as scary as it looks; if the survey focused on VB -- in my limited dealings with the industry it seems to me that the more progressive shops have moved to C#.

# Wallym said on February 16, 2005 09:02 AM:

Agreed. Unfortunately, the real world seems to intrude into our wants and desires regarding language and platform choices.

Wally

# Sahil Malik said on February 16, 2005 10:55 AM:

Lets put it this way;

If the number of C#'ers are equal to the number of VB.NET'ers, the above could be skewed a little bit to maybe VB6X ~65%, and .NET ~34% VB.5.x ~1%.

But lets not forget, even in the hardcore .NET shops you still have quite a bit of legacy code to handle.

- SM

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# XEO said on March 7, 2005 07:44 PM:

File extensions in Google:

.ASPX = 127 Million
.JSP = 143 Million
.ASP = 1,080 Million
.PHP = 1,480 Million

i.e., 8 times as many ASP pages as ASP.NET and about 10 times as many PHP pages as ASP.NET. PHP's growth has come largely in the last 2 years. PHP's growth rate is about 23X that of .NET.

.NET is a loser in the war to win the net.

# TrackBack said on March 9, 2005 07:58 PM:

It's amusing that the very people defending VB.NET are, ironically, illustrating precisely why VB.NET is in such trouble: I just want to make it clear that I am one MVP that does NOT intend to sign this petition about...

# Simon Forshaw said on March 15, 2005 07:29 AM:

From a UK jobs market perspective VB (to version 6) would appear to be slowly losing ground to VB.NET:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?q=VB">http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?q=VB</a>

Ditto for ASP:

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?q=ASP">http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?q=ASP</a>

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