Dynamic languages in the browser

The MIX Online team released a new framework today, Gestalt is a javascript library that takes advantage of JQuery, Silverlight and the Dynamic Language Runtime. Being able to use Ruby or Python as well as Xaml in a kind of Silverlight Lite is interesting.

While it doesn't bring any startling new features to the browser it certainly shows a novel use how these technologies interact and the capabilities of them all. I think as a prototyping tool or for simple Silverlight applications it could be really fun. I'm looking forward to playing with it.

You can download Gestalt from the MIX Online website.