Category / Silverlight

I’ll be honest. I don’t really want to learn Silverlight all that badly. I cannot get excited about technology that forces me to develop on a specific platform. So, I found it pretty exciting to hear recently that there’s quite a modest effort being put forth to creating tools to facilitate cross-platform development.

Enter the Silverlight Dynamic Languages SDK. The SDL is a bridge between Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime of .NET (which includes IronRuby, IronPython and others). What this means is you can develop Silverlight apps in Ruby or other languages without needing all that zany Visual Studio/C# stuff and Microsoft Technology.

What follows is my first foray into Silverlight development on a Mac - a quick sample that plays a video. To recap before I start…it kinda sucks :P There’s no development tools - cool, I can use TextMate, but creating XAML by hand would definitely suck. Maybe this is where Expression Studio (seems to be available for Mac) is really going to be necessary.