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Some large-scale Ajax apps and frameworks - the Live Framework and Office 14, both announced at PDC - built using Script#... Read More...
Script#-based Ajax development enables you to repurpose existing .NET tools - this posts shows how you can use FxCop to perform static code analysis for script code... Read More...
Microsoft Engineering Excellence Award presented to Script#! Read More...
Some words about the latest release of script#, now on CodePlex, and with support for localization, doc-comments and more. Read More...
Facebook's latest offering to application developers - a client-side script API, built on Script#! Read More...
A quick post announcing version 0.4.5.0 of script# which is now available for download - adding support for VS 2008, along with a number of fixes and some enhancements. Read More...
This morning, I was at a language symposium that's taking place on the Microsoft campus. Many language gurus are there, Anders is doing the keynote, so it's definitely a place where you can learn a thing or two. Many of the talks are about dynamic languages and how to implement them in the CLR, and as usual, you can see the usual duck-typing quote on all slide decks: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Really, folks, I don't know about that. While I generally like dynamic languages and the trend they represent, I've always been extremely uneasy about that, and what's more I don't think it's a necessary outcome of using a dynamic language. First, we don't know that it...
I'm very excited to finally be able to point to this post of Nikhil's. I've known about this project from the start and am Super-Ultra-Mega-Excited (this expression (c) Andres Sanabria) about it, but until now I had to keep my mouth shut. JavaScript is in many ways a very powerful language, but it lacks a compile-time (bye bye type checking) and OOP is very unnatural. While some consider it the best language ever, most people who come from C# or Java just go "ugh!" the first time they have to write anything beyond a click event handler with it. Some continue to strongly dislike it even after they've gained expertise with it. I'm not judging, but... Wouldn't it be nice to keep the power of dynamic scripting languages but with all the niceties...
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