Mix it up!
So this is it! After watching the streaming keynote video for more than 2.5 hours now, I can finally talk about what's been cooking inside a lot of Microsoft buildings.
Silverlight was announced a few days ago. In addition to that, in Mix '07 conference that starts today, we announced the RTM (or the final release) of Expression Studio. Trust me, the demos of Expression Studio will blow your mind away! Silverlight will now ship with a cross-platform CLR (a small one at that) which lets people write and run apps on browsers on both Mac and Windows.
My favorite announcement for the day is the DLR or the Dynamic Language Runtime along with IronPython and IronRuby (yes, it's called IronRuby) which allows people to go implement their favorite dynamic language which gets compiled to .NET bytecode. Waaaay cool!
So what are you waiting for? Silverlight 1.0 Beta and 1.1 Alpha lies here.
The blog posts are just rolling in and there is so much buzz all over Internet. You can probably catch the entire webcast here (with the terrific demos and Ray Ozzie + Scott Guthrie's interview with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch fame) in a while.
Whew! So there, I've just blogged it. Exciting times are ahead. Wildly exciting times.
Silverlight was announced a few days ago. In addition to that, in Mix '07 conference that starts today, we announced the RTM (or the final release) of Expression Studio. Trust me, the demos of Expression Studio will blow your mind away! Silverlight will now ship with a cross-platform CLR (a small one at that) which lets people write and run apps on browsers on both Mac and Windows.
My favorite announcement for the day is the DLR or the Dynamic Language Runtime along with IronPython and IronRuby (yes, it's called IronRuby) which allows people to go implement their favorite dynamic language which gets compiled to .NET bytecode. Waaaay cool!
So what are you waiting for? Silverlight 1.0 Beta and 1.1 Alpha lies here.
The blog posts are just rolling in and there is so much buzz all over Internet. You can probably catch the entire webcast here (with the terrific demos and Ray Ozzie + Scott Guthrie's interview with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch fame) in a while.
Whew! So there, I've just blogged it. Exciting times are ahead. Wildly exciting times.
Labels: Microsoft, Mix, Silverlight
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GK - I'm sorry for the delayed reply. I don't know if this is anon troll rubbish since I can't find your profile/blog. Anyway, here goes..
I believe you are referring to the DLR and implementations of various dynamic languages on the DLR itself. The DLR is agnostic of what you call "proprietary ms extensions to python and ruby". It simply provides a platform (or should I say framework) so that if you need your Python code to compile to .Net bytecode, you'll simply need to write a compiler that plugs in with the DLR. Which means, Python, Ruby and other truly dynamic languages can now interoperate by virtue of being compiled on the DLR (just like how C#, VB.Net could interoperate by virtue of being on top of CLR). You could head over to Jim Hugunin's blog for how this really works (http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/) or you can shoot me a mail and I can clarify this.
So what can Silverlight do much better than Flash? And why is Expression Studio so cool? Not trolling, just want to know what the buzz is about ...
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