Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language.

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Visual Studio developers who want to program in non-native languages can now write their own extensions to do so with new support (in preview) for the Language Server Protocol. The Language Server ...

Other features include language translation, text-to-speech, and compatibility with several physical pieces of technology such as the BBC micro-bit.” Source: S3.0 ...

Visual Studio Code proper is built using the Electron shell, Node.js, TypeScript, and the Language Server Protocol, and is updated on a monthly basis.