SEE: Programming languages: JavaScript has most developers but Rust is the fastest growing The .NET Foundation also sees potential to collaborate with the recently established Rust Foundation.

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.

Microsoft developer Jim Hugunin reveals that the Redmond, WA software company is in the process of augmenting its popular .NET platform to simplify development of dynamic programming languages.

Learn More. Microsoft has widened its net beyond .NET in its stable of programming languages, including .NET cross-platform support and its own JavaScript flavor. Explore Microsoft’s top ...

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 ...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010, the Visual F# functional language officially shipped; it now constitutes the alternative offered by Microsoft for functional programming on the .NET platform.

C++ (C plus plus) is the object-oriented version of C that is popular because it combines objects with traditional C programming syntax. See C. Pronounced "C-sharp." A Microsoft .NET language ...

So .NET developers haven't been using Rust much ... Cases in point include: [Click on image for larger view.] Most Loved Programming Languages (source: Stack Overflow). But Microsoft's interest in ...