Expert to Expert - Erik Meijer and Lars Bak: Inside V8 - A Javascript Virtual Machine

Very thoughtful, staceyw. In fact, I think a Newspeak object service on Azure would be a fun project and would provide for really compelling applications that evolve, at the object level, without the need for explicit recompilation by the author. Further,
imagine the model where the objects you use can come from some distributed service in the cloud and the pain of versioning is completely removed from your plate, by design. You could imagine an ecosystem of developers who write and maintain object services
that you consume at design time once, then the runtime system takes care of the synchronization with the cloud, object versioning, etc - you don't need to compile to incorporate updates, etc.
I posed this idea to Gilad after the interview and he smiled approvingly. So, this is not insane. As mentioned in the interview this aspect of Newspeak is not fully baked and is on Gilad's plate of futures.
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so there is no "new" in newspeak i guess? only factory methods? interesting stuff
the synchronized objects are cool but it seems very hard to find one solution for this that works for everyone.. consider TPL, there are so many ways to do concurrency that its not good to have it in the language and thus lock it in.. anders talked about that
a while back i belive.
but if gilads vision of a shrinking and mutable language comes to pass however, this might be less of a problem (still a problem though i think)
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surely gilad knows that wpf is available for xp? :O maybe it wasnt available at the time..
I tried the Lang.NET and "watch the talks" links but was not able to get to those pages. Any tricks?