[Gestalt-users] Follow-up from XSL-List: Gestalt, Extension Functions, the DLR, Spider Monkey, Tamarin, and IronMonkey

[M. D. P. <m....@xm...>]

To summarize,

Mozilla is building the IronMonkey, which is the Dynamic Language Runtime  
directly embedded into Tamarin and Spider Monkey without aid of Mono  
(meaning they're writing the support from scratch, building the foundation  
directly on top of blazing fast Tamarin virtual machine) or any other CLR  
implementation.

Links
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http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:IronMonkey

Also, as per my follow-up to Abel,

"Have you add a look at the Dynamic Language Runtime at all?  It's  
open-sourced under the MSPL (the most liberal (BSD-like) license MSFT  
offers), runs on Mono quite well, and if the hooks were provided you could  
gain the advantage of writing extension functions in any DLR supported  
language which at present time is IronPython, IronRuby, Vista Smalltalk,  
(compiled) Javascript, and VBx (Dynamic VB.)  This would also pave the way  
for providing in-browser support via Silverlight which has the DLR  
embedded directly into its core.  And as per my last response to Abel,  
could provide the perfect bridge to both SpiderMonkey and Tamarin as  
well.  That's quite the language and technology span!"

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/M:D

M. David Peterson
http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 |  
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