[mono-vb] Future of Mono's VB.NET

[Rodrigo B. de Oliveira]

On 4/20/06, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>     Yesterday I met with Rafael and we discussed a bit what we wanted to
> do with Mono's VB compiler.
>

Oh, dear FISL.

> ...
>     The idea would be to go in chunks: we could integrate individual
> commits that were done to the old mbas tree, and determine one by one
> whether it applies to mbas2.
>

Let me put another possibility on the table. Why not base the new
VB.NET compiler on the Boo infrastructure?

This would not require a fork at all but improvements and refactorings
to a shared code base on a ongoing basis. There are already two
languages based on the infrastructure (boo itself and the scripting
language for the Unity Game Engine - UnityScript).

I'd love to see that collaborative development happening.

Thoughts?
Rodrigo