If Anders talks, smart people listen. He's always over-the-top. He's a hero since Delphi - a strong advocate for developers and business productivity. The only concern is that the lead soldier is diving into meta-compiler initiatives, and not taking on the elephant-in-the-room, HTML5, Javascript and the effective closure of platform-specific code in favor of some TBD stateless wonderland. You can see from the video where his, albeit, genius, enthusiasm lies - Roslyn. Maybe I'm mis-reading, and he's sticking to his guns, but those of us who advocate Microsoft need to see that Microsoft, on the web, will be more than C#/VB.NET wrappers and syntactic sugar for HTTP calls, slightly shadowing the broader Rails / Python / Google / Apple community. Anders has always stepped up when a meta-step was necessary in the industry - I'd venture that time is now. Can we get him on the case?
posted by John Douglas
