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.

Author of the Tiobe monthly language popularity index sees both Visual Basic and Visual Basic .Net dropping from the top 10 within a year Microsoft’s Visual Basic is slipping in the Tiobe index ...

There were changes for VB, though, as documented in the company's "Annotated Visual Basic language strategy," which was updated on the same day as Dollard's post (Feb. 6). In that post, Dollard said, ...