Microsoft continues to develop C++ alongside C#, the language's .NET counterpart, and the company should do the same with "classic" Visual Basic and VB.Net, the petition argues.

Visual Basic is perhaps Microsoft’s most popular language and is responsible for a whole sector of people who otherwise might not have become developers to actually learn to code.

Microsoft continues to develop C++ alongside C#, the language's .NET counterpart, and the company should do the same with "classic" Visual Basic and VB .Net, the petition argues.

TIOBE, in discussing Visual Basic's all-time high in the popularity index, characterized the ascension of the 'toy' language as 'surprising' and predicted a future decline.

The language itself will see new features and keywords added, but only if they make sense for VB’s mission –not just because they were added to C#.

Microsoft will deliver a new general-purpose language known as F# to developers next year. F# supports financial modeling and analysis, scientific data analysis, algorithms and academic computing ...

Second, VB.NET will be changing to make it more like "BASIC"—in the sense that the language will be gaining new keywords to simplify common tasks and bring the language to a higher level of ...

Microsoft is marking this month as the 25th birthday of its Visual Basic language with an eye toward future upgrades. The company is planning a marathon Silver Anniversary Celebration, said ...

The university library is thin on Visual Basic and non-existent on C# (no surprise considering the typical academic shunning of all things Redmond in favour of learning-centric languages that don ...