Hell yes. I detest anything vb.net. Its not a language . Its a bastardisation of vb to dot netify and OO-fy it. Double yuckI agree with shauntir. VB.Net is not a foundation. It is sand. Very hard to build on it.
I am pretty convinced anybody starting our with VB.Net at this stage does permanent damage to their CV. Some VB on a CV 10-ish years ago is all good and fine, since that is before C# became mainstream. But starting out with VB.Net now is not.