Can I develop for MonoTouch using VB.NET?

Is there any way to develop for MonoTouch using VB.NET, rat开发者_如何学JAVAher than C#?

Currently Visual Basic is not supported in MonoTouch, but we plan on adding this to the mix in the future, as well as expanding our language support.

The reason for our lack of support is that in addition to shipping the VB compiler, we have to ship templates and we have to port the VB runtime which currently has many dependencies on desktop features of .NET and Mono.

Currently, C# is the only supported language in Monotouch. Also, Monotouch apps are not your average managed .net assemblies. Monotouch C# code is compiled to native code (similar to Vala)

I don't expect to see VB.Net in Monotouch in the near future - as of now, Miguel and his gang is busy with Monodroid & the Mono framework proper. According to their roadmap, they do have plans to support VB.net in the future. No time-frame has been mentioned.