Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving.

This company makes a lot of amazing compilers. I have been using some of them and it works like a charm. C#, Go, Swift all can be shared in a project and compile down the necessary target, e.g. mac, iOS, win64 etc

Maybe find a name that isn't already the name of a programming language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(programming_language)

http://www.mercurylang.org/

Given what Microsoft did at the VB6 transition, anyone who stayed with Microsoft at that point was a fool.

This is simply an extension of that.