Is the project formerly known as Volta dead or alive? It doesn't seem to have a public web pressence anymore at least.
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Bass
I need better writers.
Most people assume it is dead, because it's website mysteriously disappeared and no one in Microsoft seems to talk about it anymore. But it never was officially announced to be dead. This really sounds like something Channel 9 should investigate.
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W3bbo
Work hard; increase production; prevent accidents, and be happy.
51 minutes ago, Bass wrote
This really sounds like something Channel 9 should investigate.
You make it sound as though Channel 9 is an investigative documentary programme.
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Richard.Hein
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@exoteric: Volta became the Cloud Programmability Team and released Rx as it's first product. Although it has changed quite a bit, the goals are similar.
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@Richard Then it seems we may yet see some of the old pieces resurface. One of them was an MSIL to Javascript compiler I believe, as part of the tier-splitting concept.
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Isn't volta something akin to GWT?
It's funny to compare the team size of GWT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3hBzIOUSms) with Script# (http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX11/HTM16).
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Richard.Hein
Stay on Target
@fanbaby: Only in a limited sense where there is compilation/interpretation to JS, but the overarching theme was "democratizing the cloud", by abstracting away notions like tiers and location away. Rx is a piece of the puzzle by providing an abstraction over push-based streams, and thus allowing LINQ to be used to compose asynchronous operations. Volta seems to have exposed the need for things like Rx, but I'm just guessing at how it evolved.
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Charles
Welcome Change
"Volta" is indeed dead. Some of the technologies have been folded into new endeavours, but "Volta" itself is no longer a project...
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@C by name or by substance? Can you say what has been left behind?
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Charles
Welcome Change
Let's ask Erik?
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Please do!
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Can you actually say that a project is "dead" or "alive"? I am not smart enough to answer such deep philosophical questions.
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felix9
the cat that walked by itself
ah ... zombies
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@felix9:More like a Frankenstein monster since the parts have been distributed to other projects.
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6 hours ago, head.in.the.box wrote
Can you actually say that a project is "dead" or "alive"? I am not smart enough to answer such deep philosophical questions.
I'm nothing if not good at dumbing down
I was really just curious about the status of the work being done by the Cloud Programmability Team* (what Charles called the renegade software engineers heh); in particular what things have changed.
For example how things are going with IL2JS compilation efforts. I find the prospect of being able to use C# on the client very appealing.
I looked at Script# but it looks very limited in terms of the features it supports so one would have to lobotomize the C# code for it to compile to Javascript. But IL2JS of course lets you use any .NET language which is even cooler.
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Bass
I need better writers.
15 hours ago, head.in.the.box wrote
Can you actually say that a project is "dead" or "alive"? I am not smart enough to answer such deep philosophical questions.
That is an excellent point.
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