Comments on: Boo! http://tore.vestues.no/2008/09/04/boo/ On a quest for the silver bullet.. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tore Vestues http://tore.vestues.no/2008/09/04/boo/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Tore Vestues Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:31:09 +0000 http://tore.vestues.no/2008/09/04/boo/#comment-251 Hi! Given that the development tools for Boo (#develop and Boo Lang Studio, a plugin for Visual Studio) still cannot compete with all the support we get for C#, I think it is realistic for now to focus on special components/assemblies implemented in Boo, not the entire app, and probably not the core. I'm working with some interesting ideas on this right now. I'll keep you posted. Hopefully, soon we'll have excellent tools for Boo, and then I see no reason for not implementing entire apps in Boo. - Tore Hi!

Given that the development tools for Boo (#develop and Boo Lang Studio, a plugin for Visual Studio) still cannot compete with all the support we get for C#, I think it is realistic for now to focus on special components/assemblies implemented in Boo, not the entire app, and probably not the core. I’m working with some interesting ideas on this right now. I’ll keep you posted.

Hopefully, soon we’ll have excellent tools for Boo, and then I see no reason for not implementing entire apps in Boo.

- Tore

]]> By: Gøran http://tore.vestues.no/2008/09/04/boo/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Gøran Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:59:56 +0000 http://tore.vestues.no/2008/09/04/boo/#comment-250 Hi Tore! I liked your Boo teaser very much. I’ve personally (as you know) got into Boo, and I liked as you do. As you said, it’s the syntax extensibility mechanism that makes this language so darn compelling. By the way, where do you Boo fit in a production setting? Would you implement the app core with Boo? Or is it other parts where it’s better suited? I’m excited to see where C# 4 is heading. Have you had a look at MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)? It gave me a gut feeling that C# 4 is going to be partly about COP (Composite Oriented Programming) and domain modeling (Oslo). I don’t sure where this two connect yet. But Oslo might be a good reason why people would stay away from Boo and continue to use C#, hence the built in support for DSL and domain modeling. The reason Boo was compelling to me was because I now had the power to kind of make my own “programming language”. That’s something I would love to do, and I probably would have spent most of my time inventing language features for myself. Hehe, it would have been too much power in the hand of a software developer like me. I look forward to more Boo postings from you. Maybe you will do the honor and present Boo at NNUG in Trondheim? It would be cool to see some real world scenario samples with Boo. Keep on the good work! Gøran Hi Tore!
I liked your Boo teaser very much. I’ve personally (as you know) got into Boo, and I liked as you do. As you said, it’s the syntax extensibility mechanism that makes this language so darn compelling. By the way, where do you Boo fit in a production setting? Would you implement the app core with Boo? Or is it other parts where it’s better suited?

I’m excited to see where C# 4 is heading. Have you had a look at MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)? It gave me a gut feeling that C# 4 is going to be partly about COP (Composite Oriented Programming) and domain modeling (Oslo). I don’t sure where this two connect yet. But Oslo might be a good reason why people would stay away from Boo and continue to use C#, hence the built in support for DSL and domain modeling.

The reason Boo was compelling to me was because I now had the power to kind of make my own “programming language”. That’s something I would love to do, and I probably would have spent most of my time inventing language features for myself. Hehe, it would have been too much power in the hand of a software developer like me.

I look forward to more Boo postings from you. Maybe you will do the honor and present Boo at NNUG in Trondheim? It would be cool to see some real world scenario samples with Boo. Keep on the good work!

Gøran

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