I am sure there are a lot of people who rejoiced at Microsoft "killing" Visual Basic. And I say "killing" because I see a lot of it in use, they just stopped ad

I am sure there are a lot of people who rejoiced at Microsoft "killing" Visual Basic. And I say "killing" because I see a lot of it in use, they just stopped adding new features to it, the old applications written in the early 90s still work in Windows 8. Try that with other OSes or GUI toolkits.