In 2014, some software developers still preferred Visual Basic 6.0 over its successor, Visual Basic .NET. In 2014 some developers lobbied for a new version of the VB6 programming environment. Results of a 2015 Stack Overflow survey, however, placed Visual Basic 6.0 as the second most dreaded programming language, following the response of 72.0% of respondents. In 2016, Visual Basic 6.0 won the technical impact award at The 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards. In the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Stack Overflow annual surveys, Visual Basic 6.0 maintained its spot as the most dreaded programming language among the respondents, with respectively 79.5%, 88.3%, and 89.9% votes. It disappeared from the 2019 and 2020 surveys altogether.