Dynamic languages shine in Silverlight
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The software giant announced its new Dynamic Language Runtime that enables dynamic languages to talk to each other and support for it on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. Microsoft is making the technology broadly available to the community via its permissive license and CodePlex community site.
"One of the things we're doing with Silverlight is, beyond having it based on .Net, we're going to be shipping support for dynamic languages inside the client-side runtime," said Brian Goldfarb, lead product manager of the Web Platform and Tools team at Microsoft. "So, basically bringing dynamic languages to the browser and doing that in a very easy-to-use way." Moreover, "At the show we're going to be shipping bits that let people use JavaScript and Python," Goldfarb said.