Lt's have VB.Core!

[VBAndCs]

Most of us are satisfied with VB as it is, but I am looking to young kids / youth who are trying to learn this language today. Remember that we stared with GW Basic , QBasic, or Visual Basic back then, when the language was simpler and its syntax was smaller. It was a fun.
I can imagine this maybe less true for beginners today, where it is not a big deal for them to learn C# as a little harder but most powerful .NET tool there!
I feel that VB is on the edge of oblivion today, and can die with us!
We need to do every thing possible to pull it back and keep it to the next generations. Work should go on the 2 main VB strong suits:
1- an easier syntax langue attractive to young beginners. This is what all my recent proposal about. Consider them as a revise of all new syntax in VB.NET since .NET 1. I
2- Intelligent powerful compiler that do what you are dreaming of with a little code. I know that there are many powerful new syntax under development, but we need also to do something to fully write Xamarin apps with VB.Core.
You saw how I tried to volunteer to make vbhtml happen, and I was willing to pay it up to 6 months of hard work just to do something for my beloved language, but as you see, this amazing language took my hand and did half the job by its powerful built in Xml literal, so we now have Vazor 1.0 in less than two weeks!

I never lost faith of VB. I always define it as the Smartest Clever highest language closer to natural language ever, and want to keep it that way.
So, I dream of a big jump to a VB.Core release, with all kind of syntactic sugar, new powerful syntax additions, full support of HTML5 in XML literals to make Vazor a real production tool, and a project for Xamarin VB.Core.
Thanks.

[VBAndCs]

I froze for a moment when I saw the 404 in the title of this :)
I hope this is not the response on this proposal :)

[ericmutta]

I feel that VB is on the edge of oblivion today, and can die with us!

We as a community really need to stop saying things like this. It doesn't help us at all.

...and a project for Xamarin VB.Core.

Xamarin support for VB was discussed at length during 2018 in issue #238 and ultimately closed under "no plans at present". There is however work to bring VB closer to .NET Core so hopefully when that is done we will see VB support in more platform/project scenarios 👍

[VBAndCs]

@ericmutta

We as a community really need to stop saying things like this. It doesn't help us at all.

Better worry than sorry :) I think danger bells can give us incentive to do more.

I hope we see progress soon.
Thanks.

[pricerc]

@vodevil

VB has to die.

Why?

[rrvenki]

@VBAndCs please have a look at SmallBasic at https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/Program/Editor.aspx. It is intended for learners, young kids, and youth. One can migrate into full VB.NET from there too. It is online and no installation required too.