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Basic just really isn't all that popular anymore and its no surprise because hardly anyone likes vocab heavy languages. Same with Pascal and friends.
SQL is among the few BASIC era style of languages still putting along.
I assume vbscript no longer works in the browser. I've no idea if MS still hsas cscript able to run it.
It might still be king of VBA, I haven't checked.
VB caught the tail end of there still being a lot of people from a basic background while just catching onto the head of D&D software GUI IDEs. It made a bridge but never crossed it in the end. -
@RANTSMCPANTS Some of us are not considering the idea of caring much about obtaining new developer mindshare as much as we consider just supporting the tools in which we grew using. I can understand Pascal being in a more niche place, funny enough I actually was employed at one point as a Delphi developer. But even then, VB.NET has a very big community of developers.
And SQL can't possibly be added to the conversation since it is not a programming language, it is a query language, more of a domain specific case, in this one for relational database querying. Sure it has some functionality that could be considered being close to programming, but being that it is not a general purpose programming language I would not consider it a programming language.
I wanted to show our DBA an example of a web api using .net core 3 in regards of how easy it is to create such things. The reason? he has been wanting to get back into programming after many years of just sticking to dba related stuff. The dude has talent and brains, he had worked years ago as a delphi dev and a vb6 dev and we had the same employer at one point, none of this man's apps have been faced out on account of how complete they are and easy to maintain for other devs was after he left. Regardless of the ancient tech stacl, the man shows ample promise and well.
Thing is, the apps I make on the Microsoft stack usually tend to C#, and my frontends are using TS, so I am more on the curlt bracket side of things and he said he was to convert my app(very basic crud example, but with auth, authorization and everything in between to plug into the frontend) to VB.NET. I thought it wouldn't be that much of a problem but apparently microsoft does not hold templates for webapi for vb.net
I thought it was shitty. VB gave Microsoft a lot of developer market back in the VB6 days, and even though I really love c# I see no reason why they would just say fuck you like that to vb.net. Shit still polls pretty high in terms of dev popularity and you can apply the same design ideas to VB without much effort.
I just think this is very shitty from Microsoft's part. Much like how Apple is forcing people to adapt to Swift when there is a huge amount of obj c out there.
I dislike when companies shift focus on tech stacks like that.
rant
fucking bs