Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'

Posted by daram on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:16PM
from the visualstudiomagazine.com dept.

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2020/08/25/mercury-vb.aspx

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Re:Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multipl... by daram on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:16PM (#24276870)

  Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving.

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Re:Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multipl... by wdb on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:50PM (#24277610)

This company makes a lot of amazing compilers. I have been using some of them and it works like a charm. C#, Go, Swift all can be shared in a project and compile down the necessary target, e.g. mac, iOS, win64 etc

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Re:Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multipl... by Aeronwen on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @11:07AM (#24283120)

Maybe find a name that isn't already the name of a programming language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(programming_language)

http://www.mercurylang.org/

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Re:Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multipl... by bsder on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:19PM (#24278403)

Given what Microsoft did at the VB6 transition, anyone who stayed with Microsoft at that point was a fool.

This is simply an extension of that.

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