I think its really a peculiar thing about Microsoft. They are like climate change deniers. You can give them OVERWHELMING indisputable scientific evidence to the fact: seismic, hydro-acoustic, navy NOGAPS 2.5, 1 and 1\2 degree weather (WX) data, upper air, NOAA data and NOE data. Satellite telemetry and imagery of the amount of carbon crossed referenced against all the above collection points and STILL some people are not going to believe it.
No amount of facts will change some peoples mind on it. Even if they were 50 miles inland and they had sea water up to their knees.
C# is the same in that context. There are overwhelming facts from multiple credible and diverse data points that is in full decline. Also, there are overwhelming facts from multiple credible and diverse data points that Visual Basic 6.0 is used by millions of programmers in 2017. Even so, they refuse the reintroduction of VB6 on the market. It is obvious that Visual Basic 6.0 is like an explosive that increases MS's power on the market, yet, just like the climate change deniers, they refuse to do it.
VB6 folks know we've been left behind. That's why many of us use such a diverse set of software other than than VB6 and C#. We don't want to put all our eggs in one basket ever again of a vendor that has a track record of killing hugely popular software that we rely on for our livelihoods.
To MS's credit, they realized that VB6 created so much mission critical software that they have to maintain a minimal level of support in all there new Windows OS's until they move past needing liquid funds from that product line.
Microsoft have extended support of VB6 to Windows Server 2016. VB6 is supported until at least November 2027.
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