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

The 3 million programmers using Microsoft's Visual Basic language make up one of the largest and most cohesive developer communities in existence, but some of them now are up for grabs.

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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 ...

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.