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At least in embedded systems, this looks like something that can be done the open source way. The success of the arduino and the mbed in building popular ecosystems has shown us that.

I can see some better version of the .net micro framework, being improved by the open source community(1), and benefiting from the ms ecosystems and tools, becoming fit for some large part of embedded systems work.

Also I can see this getting adopted since it let's embedded developers in small companies, who has some power on which tools to use, learn another skill that can better their employment opportunities.

(1)improved speed could be achieved through using the cito compiler project, which might be good enough for many projects. And for making the language hard real time, it could be done using specific implementation of reference counting, although at some speed/memory cost.