This is why we can't have nice things on the Internet

Microsoft finally getting rid of Visual Basic after 27 years:

Microsoft is officially splitting from VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.

The IT giant said on Monday that VBScript, short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition, has been deprecated in an update to its list of "Deprecated features for Windows client."

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VBScript debuted in 1996 and its most recent release, version 5.8, dates back to 2010. It is a scripting language, and was for a while widely used among system administrators to automate tasks until it was eclipsed by PowerShell, which debuted in 2006.

"Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition brings active scripting to a wide variety of environments, including Web client scripting in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Web server scripting in Microsoft Internet Information Service," Redmond explains in its help documentation.

I'm having flashbacks on this one.  There is a reason that Internet Explorer was the lousiest browser (from a security perspective), and VBScript was a big part of that.  ActiveX was another big part, but since you could script ActiveX controls using VBScript, this was a recursive black hole of security fail.

Good riddance.