Microsoft killed Visual Basic on purpose. They wanted to force everyone to move to c# because they were afraid of Java and wanted to compete against their market.
MS tried to embrace, extend and extinguish Java. It got blocked in court.
So, instead, it pushed .NET instead. "If it ain't dot-net, it ain't worth sh*t."
So everything that wasn't dot-net was killed.
Real VB loved by millions? Dead.
QBasic, QuickBasic, Quick C? Dead.
FoxPro, a good dBase clone, the database of choice for millions of businesses worldwide in the '70s, '80s and '90s? Dead.
FrontPage, democratising the web for millions? Dead. HTML is dead, use ASP.net.
MS tried to embrace, extend and extinguish Java. It got blocked in court.
So, instead, it pushed .NET instead. "If it ain't dot-net, it ain't worth sh*t."
So everything that wasn't dot-net was killed.
Real VB loved by millions? Dead. QBasic, QuickBasic, Quick C? Dead. FoxPro, a good dBase clone, the database of choice for millions of businesses worldwide in the '70s, '80s and '90s? Dead. FrontPage, democratising the web for millions? Dead. HTML is dead, use ASP.net.