I've often wondered why no one has made a true competitor to Visual Basic (and VB.NET). This is a true rapid-development language; all of the UI code is written for you based on the drag and drop. Everything is straightforward, and many things can be tweaked just using the UI designer interface. The language is powerful (it's C# with a different syntax) yet incredibly simple.

Better yet, I've often wondered why no one has made something better than VB.NET; why no one has made a Visual Basic that, instead of compiling to the CLR, compiled to Ruby or Javascript or some other common web language. This would leapfrog Visual Basic in so many ways. Some have tried, including Microsoft, but it's just not the same.

From the Tech Crunch description, this might be it (though I remain cautiously optimistic). I'm looking forward to what they can do with it, and better yet, what I can do with it.