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Miguel de Icaza has blogged about Visual Basic.NET support in Mono:

Today we announced the support of Visual Basic.NET in Mono...

...The new compiler is fascinating because it is a VB 8 compiler (this means that it supports generics), but also because it is written in VB itself. This compiler was sponsored last summer by the Google Summer of Code (2006 edition).

The compiler on my laptop takes 12 seconds to compile itself (78,000 lines of code).

My first thought was 'that must be one helluva laptop'.

Nowadays it feels like it can take up to 12 seconds to compile a 10 line JSP in Websphere Portal. I know I'm comparing apples and gherkins, but still.