Wow. Technorati is normally a wonderful resource, but with > 500 posts per day on Silverlight, it's really hard to see who's saying what. So I thought that I'd try and summarize a bit of what's been going on for folks who are interested in following the conversation:
Jon Udell interviewed me and added his insightful (as always) commentary.
Darryl Taft of eWEEK interviewed Jim and me, and he also wrote a nice article on our MIX announcement.
ArsTechnica has a nice writeup on the DLR but the forum comments are also worth a read.
Scott Hanselman has a really nice writeup on Silverlight and the DLR. I love the energy flow diagram, the calling out of the DLR, the choice of license, and the awesome quotes :)
Miguel de Icaza really liked what he saw. I love how he uses terms like "adorable" and "fantastic" in describing technology. He also comments on our choice of the Ms-PL license for the DLR and Python/Ruby:
The release for the DLR is done under the terms of the Microsoft Permissive License (MsPL) which is by all means an open source license. This means that we can use and distribute the DLR as part of Mono without having to build it from scratch. A brilliant move by Microsoft.
David Laribee really gets the "Just Glue It" theme from our talk.
Peter Fisk, the Vista Smalltalk guy, is really excited about porting to DLR
For my work, two things are of importance: * the release of a CTP of the Silverlight CLR will finally allow me to examine its capabilities and limitations, so that I can proceed with porting Vista Smalltalk to Silverlight * the DLR should allow me to build a much higher performance version of Vista Smalltalk
Over the next several weeks, I will be preparing a new release of Vst/.Net to integrate with the DLR and be better synchronized with the Flash version (Vst/Flash). Hopefully, I can reach a point where scripts can be run with minimal modifications across Flash/Apollo/Silverlight/Vista.
And after he had a chance to play with it, he was even more impressed
This is very impressive technology that is certain to impact how applications are built and delivered. I think that it will mark the beginning of the broad acceptance of Rich Internet Applications in the marketplace - and this will probably benefit Adobe as well.
My congratulations to the folks at Microsoft for some excellent software engineering.
Michael Arrington is excited by Silverlight and Nik Cubrilovic has a more detailed overview on Techcrunch. They have >383K subscribers via Feedburner. Amazing.
Alexey Gavrilov really digs the DLR Console.
This is my favorite sample so far — IronPython, JavaScript and XAML console implemented on IronPython. It has syntax highlighting and code auto-competition already so I guess it won’t take long until we see complete IDE running inside the browser!
Finally, you know you've made the big time when you have your own Wikipedia page :)
