Preface:
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The President: C'mon, let me nuke that bastard.
Commander Gilmour: Are you suggesting that we blow up the moon?
The President: Would you miss it?
[looks around the table]
The President: Would you miss it?
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The programming world has its panties in uproar. In just over two weeks Microsoft ends the support cycle of the VB6 and VBA products. A group of MVPs has initiated a petition asking Microsoft to stop this insanity. Not only they want for MS to rescind the end-of-support decision, but they actually demand continued development and, unbelievably, integration of VB6 into Visual Studio product alongside with .NET languages. I probably would not be able to state my opinion on this better than Geoff Appleby did, so I'll just say nothing. Except of maybe this.

What support? The VB6 support has been lately done by the MVPs - the people who have drafted and  signed the aforementioned petition. They are absolutely free to continue to do so. The future security patches will necessarily cover the VB components. But no new development (see preface).

I am not a VB-hater (does such category even exist?). But I know from my own newsgroup support experience the amount of harm a loose, poorly structured language like VB brings. I wrote my share of VB6 code and the company I work for uses it extensively, but I moved on and the company is moving on. Hey, I love my car, but I realize one day I will have to buy a new car.

Get over it. And learn some new tricks along the way. World does not stand in place. It moves along.