i'm asking in advance for a little indulgence as I trot out my language snobbery: I had to check that the blogpost wasn't an April 1st submission because the e

i'm asking in advance for a little indulgence as I trot out my language snobbery: I had to check that the blogpost wasn't an April 1st submission because the entire premise of writing a toolchain to get cross-platform compatibility out of Visual Basic has get to be April Fool's material. The fact that the language is interpreted from VB into other languages that might generously be described as "partially good" (like JavaScript and PHP) just takes this whole thing over the top. in other words my mind is blow (as per Atwood's comment) that the goal of cross-platform compatibility wasn't achieved in a sane way, like just using Java or Python.