Alternative to VB.net ?

[dilettante]

Xamarin under the direction of Miguel de Icaza is hard at work to make that a reality for .Net languages as well though I suspect their strongest focus would be on C# but still.....

It is already getting stable at 2.0 from what I've read and each app only adds about 5MB of bloat now if you can live with the "lightweight profile." That would add another option for mobile development, as long as users don't care about their precious storage real estate on mobile devices or the overhead of thunking between the Mono environment and the native environment.

There are also things like http://www.nsbasic.com/app/ and http://basic4ppc.com/ out there.