The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that it would stop adding new language features to Visual Basic, a programming language first shipped in 1991 as one of the tech titan's first major efforts in making ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft's own programmer community has launched a campaign of defiance over a decision to end support for Visual Basic. More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have ...

Microsoft has gone back to the drawing board to retool its Visual Basic programming language in response to developer complaints over planned changes. Microsoft has been developing a new version of ...

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 ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

TIOBE Index for August 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent Python continues to solidify its significant lead over all of the other programming languages ranked in ...

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, brackets ...