Microsoft working on new systems language

[Adam Wilson]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 05:49:33 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/28/13, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Found cached version from HN:
>> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ajoeduffyblog.com%2F2013%2F12%2F27%2Fcsharp-for-systems-programming%2F&oq=cache%3Ajoeduffyblog.com%2F2013%2F12%2F27%2Fcsharp-for-systems-programming%2F
>
> Well anyway there's nothing really "meaty" here. They don't say
> whether it's a language which will de-facto run mostly on Windows (of
> course it will be..), the syntax isn't shown, practically nothing is
> shown.

Well he did say the plan is to open-source the whole thing, so ports to  
other systems (probably by Xamarin) would be easier than the reverse  
engineering that Mono had to do back in the days of yore. So at least  
they're headed in the right direction.

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