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.

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

"Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language." Microsoft in 2017 outlined that it was departing from its historical "co-evolution strategy" for Visual Basic and C#.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Developers claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages.