Visual Basic dropped from 13th to 14th place from ... followed by Python (12.3 percent), PHP (10.6 percent), C# (8.9 percent), and JavaScript (7.5 percent) Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld.

Visual Basic.Net also was ranked No. 5 last month ... including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a ...

Visual Basic (classic, as opposed to VB.NET ... "TypeScript is a strict superset of JavaScript, which means you can use it together with your existing JavaScript. But it adds a lot of extra type ...

Tiobe analysts said it was "very surprising" that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind C++, Python, C, and Java. It's even ahead of JavaScript, which currently ...

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 ...

Microsoft has introduced new JavaScript-based macroing capabilities to some Office programs, but nothing with the same mix of capabilities and ease of use that Visual Basic for Applications has.

One of the sticking points: Visual Basic for Applications ... Microsoft is beginning to add support for JavaScript APIs, which will continually improve with monthly updates, the team added.

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA ...

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft's .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...