From here on, Visual Basic's future is all about stability and helping developers move applications to .NET Core.

The TIOBE Index is meant to represent the most popular programming languages. According to TIOBE, the top 10 programming languages for the month are: Java, C, Python, C++, Visual Basic .NET, C# ...

Visual Basic .NET has cracked the top 10 of a programming popularity index for the first time ever.

C#’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds, while Visual Basic has slowly slipped down the charts, almost disappearing from the radar of popular programming query sites like Stack Overflow.

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.

It was supplanted by Visual Basic .NET for the Microsoft .NET Framework in 2002, but that version wasn't backwards-compatible and never enjoyed the same vocal popularity as VB6. While VB.NET continues ...

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 ...