The language now stands at number 5 compared to being at number 7 last year. Visual Basic is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language.

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

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.

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Visual Basic Version of BASIC for Windows programming from Microsoft that has been widely used. See Visual Basic. Visual FoxPro A dBASE language and development system from Microsoft. See Visual ...

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.

In North America most Visual Basic developers continued to use VB6 and older versions — 45 percent of all North American developers, compared with 34 percent for Visual Basic.Net.

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