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 ...
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

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GIGAZINE

The secret story of the birth of 'Visual Basic' developed by Microsoft and boasting tremendous popularity for a while

The programming language `` Visual Basic '' developed by Microsoft was at the peak of popularity for a while, but at the time of writing the article, it has become an inconspicuous existence. About ...
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 ...