Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language.

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Vick said Microsoft’s DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) is an ideal component for the Visual Basic team to use to present Visual Basic as a scripting environment.

Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#.

In its move to the open-source, cross-platform .NET Core, Microsoft will support Visual Basic in the upcoming .NET 5 and is expanding the programming language's supported application types to help VB ...

Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Visual Studio, its flagship integrated development environment ...