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Oddly ms already has/had some sort of 'compiler'. Memory is fuzzy on it, internal use and only used to build one thing, libs for messenger in browser I think.
by cincinnatus 14y ago
Oddly ms already has/had some sort of 'compiler'. Memory is fuzzy on it, internal use and only used to build one thing, libs for messenger in browser I think.
- kevingadd 14y agoIIRC they employ the guy who wrote Script# and they use it for some projects.
- aschearer 14y agoYou're thinking of Script# (http://scriptsharp.com/ http://scriptsharp.com/) and it's used at the very least to develop the Office web apps as well as Exchange's Outlook Web Access.
- drharris 14y agoI'd suspect they have several tools like this for code portability. It's relatively trivial to make a simple translator that compiles to Javascript; take CoffeeScript for example. I'd be surprised if there weren't all sorts of tools like these floating around Redmond. The notion of a "runtime" sitting on top of Javascript? That doesn't even make sense. It would also be a waste of Anders's strengths. His strength is in taking something popular and making it modern and usable (e.g. Java -> C#). Coming from him, I'd expect more along the lines of a framework or language extension or ECMA contribution than a runtime or compiler.