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Microsoft has been trying to kill Visual Basic since 2005. It's like a zombie. Credit to Microsoft for keeping customers and users of the language happy.

ZenoArrow 10y ago
>"Microsoft has been trying to kill Visual Basic since 2005" Where do you get that idea from? Perhaps it's because of confusion over the name Visual Basic. Microsoft have deprecated VB, but not VB.NET. The name 'Visual Basic' has been applied to both, but they're not the same language. Microsoft's support for VB.NET is stronger than F#, and second only to C#.
- velodrome 10y ago
  I know the article was about VB.NET (successor) but I was referring to the predecessor. http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141110003154/http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci https://web.archive.org/web/20141110003154/http://www.tiobe.... VB actually GREW in popularity in the last two years. By the way, VB is supported until 2024. That should be enough time to switch to VB.NET, right? :)
  - mynameisvlad 10y ago
    > VB is supported until 2024 There will be runtimes for VB until 2024, but that's far from calling it "supported". The last language release was 19 years ago, in '98, and the IDE stopped being supported in 2008, 9 years ago.
  - dragonwriter 10y ago
    > VB actually GREW in popularity in the last two years. Or people have been using the term "VB" to to refer to VB.NET as old-style VB falls out of the general consciousness, distorting Tiobe's web search engine based methodology for generating ratings.
  - badsectoracula 10y ago
    AFAIK supported means that they'll bundle VBRUN600.DLL (and other relevant files) with new Windows versions and make sure those work fine. After that you'll have to do that yourself and rely on normal Win32 backwards compatibility. It doesn't mean it'll stop working (e.g. you can run 32bit VB4 on 64bit Windows 10 just fine).

ZenoArrow 10y ago

>"Microsoft has been trying to kill Visual Basic since 2005" Where do you get that idea from? Perhaps it's because of confusion over the name Visual Basic. Microsoft have deprecated VB, but not VB.NET. The name 'Visual Basic' has been applied to both, but they're not the same language. Microsoft's support for VB.NET is stronger than F#, and second only to C#.

velodrome 10y ago
I know the article was about VB.NET (successor) but I was referring to the predecessor. http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141110003154/http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci https://web.archive.org/web/20141110003154/http://www.tiobe.... VB actually GREW in popularity in the last two years. By the way, VB is supported until 2024. That should be enough time to switch to VB.NET, right? :)
- mynameisvlad 10y ago
  > VB is supported until 2024 There will be runtimes for VB until 2024, but that's far from calling it "supported". The last language release was 19 years ago, in '98, and the IDE stopped being supported in 2008, 9 years ago.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > VB actually GREW in popularity in the last two years. Or people have been using the term "VB" to to refer to VB.NET as old-style VB falls out of the general consciousness, distorting Tiobe's web search engine based methodology for generating ratings.
- badsectoracula 10y ago
  AFAIK supported means that they'll bundle VBRUN600.DLL (and other relevant files) with new Windows versions and make sure those work fine. After that you'll have to do that yourself and rely on normal Win32 backwards compatibility. It doesn't mean it'll stop working (e.g. you can run 32bit VB4 on 64bit Windows 10 just fine).