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 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 ...

The completed visual programming language was named 'Visual Basic' and was released in 1991. At this time, Mr. Cooper disliked BASIC, so he was dissatisfied with Microsoft's strategy.