Where is the Microsoft VB Development Team?
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Who are the MS VB Development Team members? How many are there? Why aren't we hearing anything from them? How are we supposed to have a "community" when there's virtually no interaction from the leaders of the community?
I realize MS employees are busy but someone needs to mind the store. And if they are all THAT busy, then MS should hire some people whose primary job is to interface with the community and make sure the Development Team spends at least some time interacting with the community.
I'm sure MS uses the lack of activity in this github repository as evidence that there aren't many VB.Net programmers (or many that care) since there aren't many members\contributors here. But I would strongly suggest that the lack of participation here is mainly because 99% of VB.Net programmers probably aren't even aware this "community" exists...
And 99% of the 1% that did stumble across it didn't stay very long when the only responses they got were "That would require approval\work from the Roslyn team", "That would require approval\work from the ASP team", "That would require approval\work from the (pick your name) team", "That would require too much work and we're all too busy doing... whatever", "That won't work because..." or "We'll look into that" and then never hear anything.
As I said elsewhere, I suspect most VB.Net programmers are Business Application programmers rather than System Level programmers and consequently don't feel they can contribute on that level and\or don't have the time (or interest) to learn System Level programming. I'm absolutely positive that they damn sure care about the language and it's evolution but aren't aware that the future of the language is becoming dependent on them. It's hard enough to keep up with our day jobs and write our applications without having to take time to write the entire language development system as well. :)
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