Ars Technica

The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft’s developer strategy: C# for fancy features, Visual Basic for beginners

Pretty much any time we're talking about Visual Basic, and especially when we're talking about it under an article about Microsoft shifting it into even more of a position as a "beginners' language", ...
ZDNet

Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net dead? No, it's fifth most popular 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. In the ...