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Totally outdated Visual Basic docs #601

Closed GitMensch closed 1 year ago

GitMensch commented 1 year ago

The intro sentence is now over 8 years old:

https://github.com/mono/website/blob/4c0f5c2ddf9e17150090182b54366fa80517fbe1/docs/about-mono/languages/visualbasic.md?plain=1#L11

and references Mono 1.2.3.

I've wondered about the state of Visual Basic .NET in Mono and only found that page...

lextm commented 1 year ago

That's a great indicator that you landed on a wrong place.

To look for cross platform and open source Visual Basic .NET, your only feasible option is VB.NET on .NET Core today.

There are also commercial VB compiler(s) with compelling features, if you use search engines.

GitMensch commented 1 year ago

If this is the case then the docs may should hint at that, no?

lextm commented 1 year ago

@GitMensch the Mono project repo and its homepage repo have been kind of abandoned since 2021 if you didn't notice, https://halfblood.pro/the-end-of-mono/

Why bother an out-of-date article/site and hope it tells you all the truth?

GitMensch commented 1 year ago

the Mono project repo and its homepage repo have been kind of abandoned since 2021 if you didn't notice

I didn't; had enough to do with C and Java to bother checking the state before.

@akoeplinger still commits to the website, so I guess he may bother adjusting the docs and especially to add a "Mono is dead" deprecation if this would be the case.

There are also commits to mono (and a recent release), but you're right that its decreasing in general. Checking some package repositories: Debian ships mono only, Ubuntu and Fedora dirstribute all of mono + dotnet6 + dotnet7.

akoeplinger commented 1 year ago

While I wouldn't agree with the "Mono is dead" stance (it lives happily in the dotnet/runtime repo) I agree that the legacy version of Mono that implements the legacy .NET Framework is certainly not the preferred path going forward and that includes the VB shipped with it.

Feel free to send a PR for that docs page or I can do it later.

GitMensch commented 1 year ago

Feel free to send a PR for that docs page or I can do it later.

I'll wait and when starting new VB.NET projects (or C#) I'll go with dotnet7 as suggested. Still thank you for updating the docs on Mono + VB.NET later.