The .NET Framework 4 introduced the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) and the dynamic keyword to C# 4 and Visual Basic 10, enabling characteristics found in languages like PHP, Ruby and Python.

In fact, Visual Basic has dropped from the top five to the top 10 in the past few years, Jansen said. “If we extrapolate this trend, then it will be out of the top 10 within a year.

Tiobe analysts said it was "very surprising" that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind C++, Python, C, and Java.

Microsoft’s Visual Basic.Net language, which brought Visual Basic to the .Net Framework, has just hit an all-time high in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. But is it just a ...

Diversity and Identity Even as Visual Basic and C# grow more alike, they're diversifying from their core as strongly and statically typed programming languages. The .NET Framework 4 introduced the ...