{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/349","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/349/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/349/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/349/events","html_url":"https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/349","id":59651734,"number":349,"title":"VB.Net and vNext","user":{"login":"seascan","id":6199840,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6199840?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan","html_url":"https://github.com/seascan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/seascan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-03-03T14:50:18Z","updated_at":"2015-03-03T17:55:30Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Does anyone now how the VB community can help with vNext?  \r\n\r\nWould really like to see VB and Webforms native in ASP.Net 5.\r\n\r\nI'm not sure how to help on the technical level -- if anyone can suggest a starting point, please respond.\r\n\r\nPerhaps 'we' (VB Users) can help with documentation or examples?  \r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/comments/76997817","html_url":"https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/349#issuecomment-76997817","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/aspnet/Home/issues/349","id":76997817,"user":{"login":"craigajohnson","id":5340203,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5340203?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson","html_url":"https://github.com/craigajohnson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/craigajohnson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-03T17:55:30Z","updated_at":"2015-03-03T17:55:30Z","body":"@seascan, I'm not worried and let me explain why - my sense is that the gang are heads down in re-architecting the world to increase the relevance of .NET and to reach out to the market/mind share lost to Linux. All of the abstractions are new (modularization of CLR, project.json, etc.) - it's a ground-up rewrite heavily dependent on the marvel that is Roslyn. VB is a first-class citizen in Roslyn and there is nothing magical about the C# Roslyn layer that isn't fully extended to the VB side. It's wise to have at least 2 independent implementations of an abstraction so co-developing VB & C# makes sense, not to mention that VB.NET is a beautiful language and has a long history. If you look at the latest TIOBE, for every 4 lines of .NET code written, 3 lines are in C# and 1 line is in VB.NET. Both VB.NET and F# are on the rise. Whenever I consider .NET's adoption rate, I always combine VB and C# together. Anyone who attempts to malign or downplay VB.NET is speaking from a position of ignorance.\r\n\r\nVB/C# at this point yield fundamentally identical IL so it's really simply a question of preference.\r\n\r\nWith that said, though, the ASP.NET team is attempting to gain credibility in the Linux/OSS community which doesn't really care about VB and no doubt the ASP.NET team themselves strongly prefer C#. At this point they're sprinting to the finish line to release a stable drop to the world but in the process they've moved to a true CI/CD process so any \"release\" is just a brief point-in-time. No doubt when the RTM dust settles and there is a measure of architectural stability, there will be greater opportunities to provide and support such extensions.\r\n\r\nKeep in mind, though, that cross-platform support may only ever be a C# story.\r\n"}}