Because .NET Core is open source, meaning free to download ... "If you're learning how to program and learn .NET, we want to keep Visual Basic as an option for that," Hunter said.

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.

Visual Studio-backed programming languages fared well in the latest TIOBE Index popularity report, with Visual Basic and R jumping up in the rankings and TypeScript cracking the top 100 for the first ...

In fact, recent programming popularity indices reported it has fallen off in developer mindshare. Throughout the years, however, many derivatives of VB have been created, and variations such as Visual ...

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