Visual Basic (VB) is lost in the crowd.

These days 95%, if not 99, of software/web, mobile development job vacancies requires you, a job seeker (ENTRY LEVEL), to know @ least 3 of the below listed packages. Two from software/web development and one from database management.

Software/Web Development Lang(s)

C/C++ 

C#

Asp.net

Java

Php

Python

Ruby

HTML, CSS & JavaScript

Database Management

Ms SQL

My SQL

Oracle

I am just curious as to what is happening to the once popular Visual Basic a.k.a (vb)…. Is it lost in the crowd? Is it outdated? like i said, just curious:::