When I first saw Grasshopper I thought, “Why would I want that?”  Mono has good support of C# but not really VB.Net.  Now I am not a language bigot I use both these languages every day, but the fact is that for cross platform development you MUST understand that  C# is a standard and can be implemented by anyone.  VB.Net is not and can not.

But then I ran across this post on Patrick Santry's (aka wwwCoder) Blog!  I knew that  Grasshopper's site ran on DotNetNuke (DNN).  But what I didn’t know is that it is running on the Linux platform using PostgreSQL as the backend database!  WOW!  I love the DNN project and think that choosing VB was actually a great decision because it can prove that VB.Net is a powerful first-class language in .Net.  The only drawback I saw was that it would be hard to port DNN to Linux using Mono.  Duh!  Already done.