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MS should help VB community to take over!

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I am under the impression that @AnthonyDGreen is working on VB.NET alone!
Even this repo seems nearly neglected due too few interactions with the team / admins.
If MS doesn't want to waste its resources on VB.NET and let it for the community, this is OK, but we have an essential problem:
VB.NET programmers that have a deep knowledge of compilers at general, and VB Compiler/Roslyn SDK in particular, are rare (VB6/VB.NET was not a first choice for compiler builders), so, the community can't easily add new features to VB languages and code editor.
To change that, MS should provide us with all resources needed to learn the VB compiler: documentations, notes, tutorials, videos, and even private tools that MS use to build and test VB new features.
If you want to give up VB, fine, but hand off the control to the community. Publish every thing in details in a wiki in this repo, provide PDF books, and let us take care of our beloved language.
VB community needs a strong push under some supervision at beginning.
Create a VB.NET lab to test suggested features, assign one of the team to it, document every detail about how features are added, and assign some work to persons willing to learn and participate. I don't think there is an easy alternatives. There is no other place to teach us such things. I am not aware of MS certificate of this topic. If someone decided to take this journey alone, it will take years with lack of resources and assistance.
So, Ms should help to build this community from ground up, otherwise, we will continue proposing ideas with no one or no mean to implement them.

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