Yes, that's why I made a note of its dialect nature. But I still count it as something that sprung from interesting work in the JVM community that deserves to b

Yes, that's why I made a note of its dialect nature. But I still count it as something that sprung from interesting work in the JVM community that deserves to be noticed on its own. In this case, the output as javascript is almost incidental, the more interesting results is the language-browser interaction it allows. It does not matter where the research got done as long as it's interesting and moves things forward. Anyways, the cultures of MS and MSR are so different, it is arguable if one can even consider MSR as part of Microsoft. Sort of like Hong Kong and China. MSR fund a lot of haskell work for example.