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"Don't talk about Microsoft, talk about the work we do, because we do great work."

This should be C9s mission statement. Great conversation, I really enjoyed it.

Thanks, I am really impressed by the openness of MS of which C9 plays a huge part. As Jaron says, that's the reason he joined, stay honest and keep it up.

Nice interview, I like the new suttle camera angles to, just don't overdo them if you decide to do more  

btw Charles, can't someone please fix the silverlight player in Chrome, I just upgraded silverligt to 4 where it's supposed to be supported, but the seek still don't work well in Chrome, the new player used elsewhere on ms sites works great, but not on C9. Also, it would be great if you could redesign the media download and rating buttons, they are too hard to see and many people don't realise they are there.

seek doesn't work in chrome

Not really a question, but Don mentions that he felt like he was encoding a lot of stuff, and he felt he missed language support for concurrency. Then you talked about code as data, and after watching the Clojure video here on C9 I thought that perhaps Clojure.Net would be a good fit.

lisp?

Great interview.

All my questions were answered, perf - solved, fuzzy text - solved, help - solved, etc.

One interesting thing that was talked about was intellisense and JavaScript. Would it be possible to implement intellisense for the DLR so all dynamic languages could have it?

You talked about how now almost all C++ developers finally use VS, it would be great if for the next major version (VS 2012 or something) you could have as a major target to get all the dynamic languages people to use it. With a great story for DLR intellisense, form designers (perhaps have a xaml format for winforms that all languages can hook into, and ditch the code generation?), dynamic compiling, repl, etc. 

The constant zooming and camera work is very irritating.

http://xkcd.com/297/  

"
Status: definitely alpha. Developers only at this point.
Alpha = rough edges, incomplete features, slow.
"

This from the ClojureCLR link dated feb 2009, is this still the case? Would love to be able to actually use Clojure on .Net