Really, this is a great extension (watch the screencast too) of the .NET platform. Having data typing “capabilities” when creating a set javascript routines is invaluable. I’m all for this type of tool in my environment. It takes some of the pressure off of me when code reviewing our not-quite-web-2.0-website. I’m going to have to look at it a little longer, but I think this may also help me in getting some unit testing implemented against our javascript.
I like this part of Nikhil’s post
In December, while on vacation, I decided to finally get down to writing a compiler that could enable this.
Dude, where was your vacation? Regardless, I’m not going there anytime soon. Really…where were you? Saskatchewan? Winnipeg?
I’m the Igloo Coder and I’m sharpening up my javascript tools.