Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft's BASIC for .NET, still behind many line-of-business apps; it gets fixes but no new language features. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Created by
- —
- First release
- 2002
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/visual-basic/
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Procedural
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- Yes
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- .NET (CoreCLR)
- Concurrency
- async/await, tasks, threads
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- NuGet
- Used for
- Desktop, Back end
- Specification
- Visual Basic Language Specification