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We should have something like GWT that compiles .NET to whatever Microsoft thinks developers should use.

For HTML5, we already have one: http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html

That's not exactly a fully supported toolset. There is another C# to js compiler http://projects.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharp which is AFAICT another side project.

If one of these were to stick - it would first need to be supported be a somewhat larger organization (ala apache foundation for java components, or google for GWT/Closure).

For the F# developer, WebSharper ( http://websharper.com/ ) seems to offer a great implementation based on the Formlets abstraction. For some theoretical background, have a look at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/formlets/ which has some articles describing the Form abstraction by Philip Wadler, et al.

The fun thing is that there WAS something from Microsoft themselves, called Volta. I've never heard anything about this project for 2-3 years already. RIP, I suppose.

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