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title: Towards a Mono for Silverlight, Dancing in The Moonlight
date: 2007-05-14T12:59:20Z
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If you want to know what the future of dynamic languages holds read this guy. Seriously – read the [21st Century Smalltalk](http://vistasmalltalk.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/monos-moonlight-project/) blog. Today Peter points out:

> Mono is an open source software project which provides .Net-compatible libraries, tools, and runtimes for Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris. They have recently started work on building a Mono-compatible version of Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) under a project named Moonlight. The project page gives a very good overview of the various technologies involved.

Sun should try and hire this guy if it wants to make the multi-language on the JVM story stick.

disclosure: Adobe, Microsoft and Sun are clients.