IronJS, F#, and .NET (Changelog Interviews #62)

Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.

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Featuring:

• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#


• Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS


• F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.


• “This JScript thing”


• Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.


• IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby


• IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support


• Miguel de Icaza created Mono.


• Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.


• Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source


• GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects


• C# and .NET are hard to Google


• Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#


• Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4


• Don Syme, architect behind F#


• “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.


• Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.

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