Comment by jimmaswell

VB.NET is all of that except even easier to work with and more sensible, plus interop with any other .NET language. VS for VB.NET is not slow at all. I used VB.NET throughout a high school class and recently had to modify some VB.NET I found in an open source project to adapt it to my project. It was a very smooth procedure even after not having used the language in years. But with having C# now, I don't think there's much reason to write VB.NET instead of it unless you're working on existing VB.NET code, even though it does have a few nicer spots like the convenient Sub ... Handles myEvent where in C# there has to be an explicit += somewhere, and a few other small things; however, overall C# is more powerful.