3 years ago

Category: Microsoft

Visual Basic is remembered as a forerunner to today’s low-code offerings, but it still ranks sixth on the TIOBE Index, which is based on the share of search engine hits for different programming languages. In other words, there is a lot of content about Visual Basic, but no one is looking for it. Visual Basic content creation had been moribund then spiked after .NET Core was released, resulting in over 7% of all of TIOBE’s search results in early 2019. Since Visual Basic is used to create .NET apps, it is not a coincidence that 27% of the 2020 StackOverflow Developer Survey had extensively used .NET Core in the last year.

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) had been widely used by previous generations of citizen developers to customize Microsoft Office applications, but had long been discarded by others.