IronJS, F#, and .NET (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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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