In fact, Visual Basic has dropped from the top five to the top 10 in the past few years, Jansen said. “If we extrapolate this trend, then it will be out of the top 10 within a year.

Roslyn features open source C# and Visual Basic compilers offering code analysis APIs. DuoCode is another tool for compiling to JavaScript without actually writing JavaScript.

The fact that Google adopted TypeScript next to its own JavaScript variant language Dart is proof that TypeScript has a bright future." In total, Visual Studio provides first-class support for six of ...

The successor to WSH, Windows PowerShell, is programmed with C# and Visual Basic .NET, but it can host WSH scripts, including those written in JavaScript. Over and over, on the client as well as on ...

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 ...

One of the sticking points: Visual Basic for Applications, a language that Microsoft added in 1993 to allow users to define their own functions. Is it time for VBA to go? Apple’s WWDC 2025 is here.

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 ...

TIOBE Index has released its list of top programming languages for December 2018 with a surprising finding that Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET is moving up the ranks.