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Visual Basic on GNU/Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

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  1. Why...? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I remember taking a Visual Basic class in college. Drop objects on a form and define pieces of code that connects the objects. There wasn't any real programming being done. I can't imagine why you would want to run it on Linux. Isn't the command line enough?

  2. Re:OS X Intel? by smbarbour · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know I'll probably lose karma for this... but C# is essentially VB with C++ formatting.

    (I will concede that there are a number of things that C# has that VB still doesn't, but there are few differences otherwise.)

  3. developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "software developers using Microsoft Visual Basic"

    isn't that like "frozen fresh!" or "military intelligence"?

  4. It's a bit different than Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While .NET developers would like to see the platform become more portable. They aren't interested in making that happen by targetting the lowest common denominator of crap.

    So we're targeting Windows. If Linux wants to grow up, add whatever is needed to work, and join the fun... that's awesome. If not, well it's your loss not ours.