>I like, uh, love, uh, I'm addicted to, uh slaved to, highly (meta) data driven applications, and in the current state I'm not satisfied with either VB.NET or C#. I'm aware of all kinds of other alternatives that are complimentary in the .NET platform that just might be a solution to me, esspecially if you can use classes cross language. I'd like the .NET platform to mature and provide me with more options before I do ANY attempt on porting my HUGE codebase to any other platform. Its just a matter of economics.

How do you assess and qualify if a language is already mature or not? And if you will wait for .NET or other tools to mature to your liking before using then it will be disastrous in the end and you accomplish yet nothing because I consider VFP as a mature product that's why it's dying naturally.