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Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery
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I learned some VB.net in college and it probably depends on what you are trying to do with it, but it's simpler than Python, I would say. It is an event driven language, and you handle everything at a very high level. It was the first language taught in my CS studies in the mid to late 2000s for that reason. I remember enjoying working with it, the performance just sucks and there are just better languages for most of the things it does, like C#.
That being said, Python is very nice and intuitive to learn and work with as well. It's just a much deeper rabbithole than VB.