@neauoire "And what's a kid going to do with Visual Basic? Build a modal dialog? Forget coding for XBox. Requires registration in the XBox"
Ok so funny thing about this sentence, with an xbox one and $15 to sign up for the indie developer program, I'm pretty sure one *can* write visual basic programs for xbox. I don't know if anyone ever did, but UWP was weird like this.
I don't think that's in conflict with the author's point at all, though.