Great. Just, great.
Programming language gatekeeping, from the government. As if “the government” knows anything about anything, let alone technology created in the last 50 years, let alone programming languages specifically.
This guy gets it. As usual, it’s governmental interference to impede free markets for literally anything and everything, to protect campaign-contributing incumbents in a segment, and guarantee re-election funds.
Nevermind that VB.Net compiles to the same bytecode as C#. That’s officially off the list. Feels like Microsoft is getting the feds to pressure people away from a language that is still popular, but which they don’t want to support any more.
I can hear it from the decades-behind-the-curve gatekeepers in my Fortune 250 now: “Sorry, Dave, but Ruby isn’t on the government’s recommended languages list, so you can’t use it.”