Visual Basic: A Legacy of Programming History.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Slashdot
Retool's Ryan Lucas has written a history of Visual Basic, detailing how it became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development. At its peak, Visual Basic had nearly 3.5 million developers worldwide. Many of the innovations that Alan Cooper and Scott Ferguson's teams introduced 30 years ago with VB are nowhere to be found in modern development, fueling a nostalgic fondness for the ease and magic VB delivered that we have yet to rekindle.