The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...

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 ...

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.

It was not the Basic programming language I remember Basic to be, and a self-instruction book on it literally told me what I had already concluded, that Microsoft had so thrown out any sense of it ...