Microsoft now has an officially-supported cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework. That’s cross-platform folks, not just cross-browser. That means, in the not too distant future those cool .NET apps you’ve been working so hard on (you HAVE been building apps on .NET, right?) will run on a Mac too.
But that’s not all. Microsoft brought together some of the best minds in dynamic languages together, and built a common platform for implementing dynamic languages like Python and Ruby on top of .NET. It’s called the Dynamic Language Runtime, and it plugs into the CLR, allowing anyone to plug in their own dynamic languages, much like you can with the CLR today.
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