By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
February 29, 2008, 10:10 AM
The mindsets of the dynamic language programmer and the classical, static language developer are practically different beasts. So can they share the same IDE? We spoke with the man in charge of what aims to be that one IDE, Visual Studio 2008.
Of the two dilemmas, one would probably prefer the type that Microsoft's newly appointed Visual Studio general manager Jason Zander faced this week, to the one facing the SQL Server team: holding a gala launch for a product that actually started shipping last November, as opposed to one that may end up shipping in July.
Zander is a veteran Microsoft developer, having been one of the few, original core developers of the Common Language Runtime that is now the heart of the .NET Framework. He spent eleven years championing that programming system up until last September, when he found himself promoted to a lead role with Visual Studio 2008 -- a product line he had actually been involved with before being moved to .NET over a decade ago.
Last Wednesday at the "Heroes Happen Here" gala launch party, Zander sat down with BetaNews firstly to celebrate the fact that Visual Studio was already well aloft, as launches were concerned, but then to discuss a multitude of topics in Zander's trademark explicit detail. One of them was dynamic languages -- specifically, the re-emergence of quick-and-dirty programming with pliable and embraceable dialects like IronRuby, IronPython, and the prolific D language -- and their newfound role as elements of Visual Studio programming.
But to begin, we touched on a development from Adobe that took place two days earlier: the release of its 1.0 edition of the AIR graphical Web development platform, Silverlight's principal nemesis.
source: betanews.com
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