People that are maintaining large legacy apps, and don’t have the budget / time / etc to convert. There’s nothing wrong with this, it just is what it is. Many of them see no advantage to all of these newfangled things like Classes, inheritance, or really progress in general, and don’t understand many of the core concepts that are involved in more advanced languages (and even in VB6). People that never really learned “Software Development”, but just learned to code in VB6 will hang onto it long term. That said, you’ll find a few of groups of people that still work with it. Now that I’m done with it, I can honestly say that there’s no amount of money that would get me to take any job using VB6. It held me back, it held my company back, and it cost me tons of money converting all of the code we wrote in VB6 to. NET since ’05, I wish I hadn’t held onto VB6 for as long as I did.
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