Business Insider

A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a ...
Ars Technica

The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net dead? No, it's fifth most popular programming language

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...