A lightweight, interpreted scripting language developed by Microsoft that is a subset of Visual Basic, primarily used for client-side web scripting and Windows system administration.
imperative, procedural, event-driven, structured, object-oriented
automation, scripting, web development
string interpolation, reflection, modules
dynamic system, structural typing, weak typing, full inference, runtime checking, aggressive type coercion, no type annotations
interpreted
vbs, vbe
| Status | legacy |
| Type | programming |
| Created | 1996 |
| Designed by | Microsoft |
| Developed by | Microsoft |
| PyPL Index | N/A |
| TIOBE Index | #37 |
| GitHub rank | #56 |