A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
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'Modern Visual Basic' Mercury Language Debuts

RemObjects has debuted the Mercury programming language, described as a modern Visual Basic "with a future" for all platforms. The "with a future" description refers to Microsoft's 2020 announcement ...