Visual Basic was mostly used for LOB applications. That stuff mostly migrated to the web. When businesses decided to move those applications to the web, they

Visual Basic was mostly used for LOB applications. That stuff mostly migrated to the web. When businesses decided to move those applications to the web, they had a choice between C# and VB.NET (if they stuck to the MS stack). C# ultimately won. Most of the old VB developers that are still around have converted over to being C# developers now. When everything was a desktop app then the choice was C++ or VB and there were a lot of situations where VB "won". Today C# does everything VB used to do but better on the desktop and non-performance sensitive applications are increasingly using Electron anyway. Performance sensitive desktop app = C++ Windows focused non-performace sensitive desktop app = C# Cross platform non-performace sensitive desktop app = JS/TS in Electron Web app = anything but VB