"Polyglot Programming": F# + JavaScript + Ruby = Web Workbench @ Hanselminutes

podcast: Hanselminutes - Polyglot Programming and .NET - Lessons Learned with Ivan Towlson from Mindscape

Mindscape recently released Web Workbench
(plugin tool for Visual Studio 2010) to the community for free
with support for LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript.

Interestingly, they used C#, F#, JavaScript and Ruby
to create this app. Very interesting for web / .NET developers.

Polyglot programming – some lessons learned by Ivan Towlson

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LESS: extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (IE 6+, Webkit, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js.

SASS: an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin

CoffeeScript: a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all of those embarrassing braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way.