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If MS bought Xamarin and brought this in house...it would kill almost all of the other tools that people are using to build IOS and Android apps. Just destroy them. VS is the best dev tool hands down...being able to do cross platform would just be epic. It might also improve the quality of apps in the Windows Store since writing for windows or windows phone wouldn't seem like you were shooting yourself in the foot. (That's not my opinion, its what I'm hearing from people who are selling software in the Apple and Android stores.)

@Charles Has anyone around MS been discussing the appx application model for server applications? With the exceptions of the UI specific stuff all of this work would make for more efficient/secure server applications as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming 

It's been around a long time. The guest was right, paired programming and TDD are the main take away.

This was so awesome.

This is kind of the "relativity theory" of computation. Expanding the current theory from two dimensions to 4...time, space, latency, and energy. Expressing a relationship between those dimensions via types sounds awesome. Maybe at the beginning you could give the programmer attributes to mark up their code to express areas that either are or are not power sensitive/in-sensitive. As the platforms energy profile changes...dock...undock...etc...some calculations fall within the devices allowed expenditure range.

Restricting a language's expressivity seems tough to me because people always find a way to express themselves.

@Charles...Native is a relative term. You could describe a process with a language and then have it "firmed up" by running it on a FPGA. There are people doing that with Java these days. If you want to talk about optimization then you also have to take a long look at the problem you are trying to solve.

These guys rolled out a FPGA cluster for JP Morgan:

http://www.maxeler.com/technology/dataflow-computing/

In this video Brian says that they are going to post this stuff to codeplex...does anyone know if that happened?

This is fantastic.

@Charles What and awesome interview. I work with soooo many people who would be little tyrants if they had done something that successful and used by so many other people. He seemed really very with it.

Right on...or "Rock N Roll!"

Wow, it's like that Galen guy and his team get to work on magic...

I'm jealous of their lifestyle.

@Charles...dude. We're old. I also took Turbo Pascal in college...one of the TA's had built a PL1 compiler. Age with dignity bro.

Tade wars was the NICENESS.