More people are going out of their way to support others/get involved with forums for Visual Basic, why isn't that a good indication of its success?
If anything, the more feedback and communication on a product, the further enhanced and stable it becomes, I really don’t think Visual Basic is going anywhere for a long time to come
Like you said though, it's whatever the end user prefers. I have no need to save a nanosecond or two with C, so I'll stick with VB