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I don't think you quite understand how Wasabi works. Wasabi compiles VBScript (written mostly like normal VBScript with some conventions to ease the work on the
by johns 17y ago
I don't think you quite understand how Wasabi works. Wasabi compiles VBScript (written mostly like normal VBScript with some conventions to ease the work on the compiler) to PHP. At least, that's how it originally worked. Now it compiles the same code to .NET IL which runs on Windows and Mono. They're not writing code in some obscure language.
If there's some company out there that doesn't want to hire people capable of writing their own compilers to more easily add cross-platform support to their software the guys at Fog Creek aren't going to want to work there anyway.
- mseebach 17y agoAccording to Spolsky, Wasabi is backwards compatible with VBScript, but "we like closures, active records, lambdas, embedded SQL a la LINQ, etc. etc. and so those are the kinds of features we put into Wasabi." If they'd been working in vanilla VBScript in 2010, it'd be even more insane, and also, I think Joel would have some serious problems holding on to employees. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html