Monthly Archives: August 2011

Javascript is being used as a compiler target language in loads of existing compilers. This is all very well, but the resulting applications need to be debugged. If you’re written an application in a particular language you’d really like to … Continue reading →

Attributes are used in .NET as an extension mechanism, allowing methods and classes to have extra information added to them, which can be picked up by other tools. Some of these attributes affect that runtime itself – for example, some … Continue reading →

V8 seems to doing great things for Javascript performance, and there is an interesting series of blog posts on how it does its stuff here.  V8 borrows a lot of techniques from the implementation of Self, a prototype based language … Continue reading →

HTML5 means lots of different things to different people. There’s a really good blog post here that puts these interpretations into perspective.

Memory models are just too complicated at the user level and even compiler implementers have a a hard time getting their JITs to work correctly. Structuring code as series of single threaded objects, typically using Agents, has always seemed like … Continue reading →

There’s a talk here that contains some material on Roslyn, the compiler as a service feature that will be exposed in a future version of Visual Studio. The talk focuses on the potential for Refactoring, but this feature offers a … Continue reading →

I do most of my programming these days in C#, though I have ended up learning a little Visual Basic over the years. It never ceases to amaze me how IL manages to support two languages with very different features. … Continue reading →

I’ve only just found the Windows Weekly podcast and have only listened to a couple of episodes, but there were a lot of reasonable predictions concerning Windows 8 in the first episode that I listened to. Microsoft haven’t released an … Continue reading →