OK. S. Somasegar has confirmed that Anders is working on JavaScript stuff, "thinking about this more from the language and tools perspective".
http://www.zdnet.com/whats-microsofts-father-of-cs-next-trick-7000004226/
So, as we narrowed down the possibilities, let me try it once more, with speculations going full steam ahead.
Assumtions:
1, Anders doesn't like coding in JavaScript directly, at all.
2, Its unlikely that Anders will invent a new language like Dart/CoffeeScript.
3, Simply put MSIL2JS there is not optimal, so its more about tooling.
So, as Roslyn has a scripting API, with fully dynamic REPL support, maybe we will see a Roslyn based client-side web development environment, provides Edit&Refresh dev experience, using C#/VB or C#Script(csx)/VBScript(vbx) as the development language, MSIL2JS as compiler backend, TypeProvider-like dynamic integration of data sources and Web API, Razor-like HTML mixing, etc.
Now the question is, does it support XAML ?????
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So, Steve Lucco for the runtime (Chakra), Erik Meijer for the bridge (MSIL2JS), Anders for the language and tooling (Roslyn), three pillars of something ?
But a more impotant question is, how will this deliver more value than http://sharpkit.net/ or http://www.componentart.com/products/mds/ ???
OK, as Charles said, its all about fun, but there is definetely more fun for hits than misses, so lets wait and see, 20 days to go. ![]()