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 ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started ...

Microsoft has open-sourced the 6502 BASIC programming language interpreter from 1976. Its source code is now available on ...

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.

Microsoft began adopting Rust for core Windows programming a few years ago, praising the relatively new language as a key tool for reducing bugs and enhancing ...

TIOBE, in discussing Visual Basic's all-time high in the popularity index, characterized the ascension of the 'toy' language as 'surprising' and predicted a future decline.