A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
Hackaday

Ben Eater Vs. Microsoft BASIC

[Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in asking us if we’d covered [Ben]’s getting MS BASIC running on the ...
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Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...
Hackaday

MS BASIC

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a disk-based operating system as we would know it today, these systems invariably ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Open-Sources the BASIC Software That Powered Early PCs

Late last week, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered early personal computers like the Commodore PET, VIC-20, ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

It's my understanding that there really still isn't. There are C compilers for the 6502, but I've gathered that they just don't generate good code. It's okay for simple utilities, but if you want to ...