Microsoft DLR and Lua?

["Erik Cassel" <erik@...>]

Has anybody been thinking about Microsoft’s DLR?  It will be part of Silverlight. Lua sounds like an excellent language for this kind of thing. Imagine Flash on steroids with Lua in place of clunky ActionScript!

 

Apparently there are Python, _javascript_, Visual Basic and Ruby implementations already built on top of DLR.

 

Of course, this might require a complete re-implementation of the language. Also, Lua generally prides itself in being small, self-contained, pure C, etc, etc.  Still, I think it is intriguing…

 

Here are some links:

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/archive/2007/04/30/a-dynamic-language-runtime-dlr.aspx

 

http://sessions.visitmix.com/default.asp?event=1011&session=2012&pid=DEV02&disc=&id=1511&year=2007&search=DEV02

 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070430-microsoft-reveals-dynamic-language-runtime-for-net.html

 

Your thoughts?

 

-Erik Cassel