Lazycoder

Microsoft scripting replacement

VB6?Äôers Need a Hug (Well That And Maybe To Learn COBOL)

Microsoft has not come forward with a public strategy on a replacement scripting language for .Net (and especially XAML). That is what I see as the underlying issue behind the problem. Microsoft does not have a replacement for the VB6 niche.

or do they?

Something that is more then a scripting language, but not as complex as OOP or .Net. Being able to code in an object oriented fashion would be nice, but should not be a must (for this niche). This new (or rehashed old language) should be able to be used within XAML docs without having to compile them to run (which is currently not the case in the early bits of XAML).

I think IronPython (or maybe it’s called Python.NET after they hired Jim Hugunin) could fit this bill nicely.