Why can't Microsoft do more to support external projects like Boo and Nemerle? It drives me insane seeing all the love Python and Ruby are getting from Microsoft, when there are languages out there that embraced the CLR from day one being ignored!

To be honest, by "love" I mean IDE love. Nemerle is a great language - light years ahead of C#. The same goes for Boo. But the tool support for these languages in poor. The Nemerle VSIP project barely usable for any serious work and for Boo the only real option is SharpDevelop.

I confess, I am a total Visual Studio junkie. I need my tools. Using emacs and cmd prompt for some project with hundreds of source, resource and data files is stupid. You shall take intellisense from my cold dead hands!

The problem it seems that developing a reliable, complete, VS integration package is very hard. Microsoft: please reach out to these pioneering developers and offer them what ever they need to get their awesome languages in Visual Studio. Just do it. In fact, go one better and release Boo Express and Nemerle Express for free! The .NET world will thank you.

Reading this kind of shit makes me so very sad.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:40:46 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)      Comments [1]