This was the dream of C#, Managed C++, F# and VB.Net on the .Net runtime. It worked out OK for some people, but IMO not all that great -- all the languages tren

This was the dream of C#, Managed C++, F# and VB.Net on the .Net runtime. It worked out OK for some people, but IMO not all that great -- all the languages trended towards being syntactic sugar on top of C#. The hard part is rarely the language, but learning the semantics of the platform the language runs on, and those languages have very different opinions of what that platform should be.