OpenAI Launches a Coding Model for Older Programming Languages

OpenAI today announced GPT‑6 Astra, an AI coding model tailored for COBOL, Fotran, Visual Basic, and other older programming ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: We won’t evolve Visual Basic programming language but we’ll open it to .NET 5

Microsoft has revealed it will support Visual Basic on .NET 5 but also that it has no plans to evolve the language. As Microsoft’s .NET team notes, Visual Basic on .NET Core only supported Class ...
Crypto Briefing

OpenAI upgrades its model for COBOL, Fortran, and other legacy code

OpenAI says its latest model better supports building and migrating COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic code used by banks and ...
CNET

Developers slam Microsoft’s Visual Basic plan

The developers, members of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional program which recognizes influential members of the developer community, claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual ...
techtarget

Give Visual Basic language apps a cloud afterlife with code conversion

Microsoft introduced the first version of its Visual Basic language in May 1991 at the Spring Comdex trade show in Atlanta. After six generations of the original product, the development platform ...