In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic ... 3.1, with the unifying .NET 5 planned for November. Microsoft announced that with .NET 5, VB's ...

Why it matters: There's a good chance you cut your coding teeth on BASIC if you took a computer class ... birthday on May 1, marking over half a century since this pioneering programming language ...

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.