A version of the BASIC programming language from Microsoft specialized for developing Windows applications. When first released in 1991, it was similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC. With its visual ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

Visual Basic fell to tenth from ninth, and Fortran dropped out of the top 10 to eleventh. Further down the board, Rust and R saw significant year-over-year point increases. The top 10 programming ...