(The most dreaded language for 2018 was Visual Basic 6). As of 2020, VBA has held its position as 'most dreaded' language for developers for 2 years, according to some who participated in surveys undertaken by Stack Overflow. Although pre-.NET Visual Basic is no longer supported or updated by Microsoft, the VBA programming language was upgraded in 2010 with the introduction of Visual Basic for Applications 7 in Microsoft Office applications. Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA) is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming language Visual Basic 6, which was declared legacy in 2008, and is an associated integrated development environment (IDE).
Static/Dynamic Hybrid, Strong/Weak Hybrid