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Comment by golergka | Hacker News Reader

Javascript, javascript, javascript... So, where's the C#?

> Uno, a light-weight, high speed dialect of C#.

Ah! Here it is. A light-weight dialect, you say. Similar to Unity3d's old Mono fork that hasn't been updated since .Net 2.5, and still crashes when you attempt to use some of language features (like named parameters)?

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Yes, at least he could reverse the order of words in the subj. The link on the website leads to the API docs - there is no language description. I bet "high-speed" actually means "we removed things we think you don't need". Feels like a Unity3d-inspired afterthought.

It does not matter though, the world is moving away from JS. Better support the full C#.

> The world is moving away from JS

Which world is this? The world I live in seems to be full speed ahead with JS.

The world where the browser is yet another virtual machine using a bytecode format called WebAssembly, with developers having found memories (or not) from the days when JavaScript was the only option.

Before they where called outracks.com and were making some kind of 3D studio. But apparently they have switched over to working full time on Fuse instead, which is kinda sad as Uno is pretty awesome. I'm guessing documentation is going to come up on their new webpage eventually, I remember them doing a private beta of Uno and the 3d studio thing. I'm wondering if they have given up on the 3d studio thing, or if they are just planning on rebranding it, since it seems they have given up the name outracks.

> the world is moving away from JS

I would love to see this happening, but can you please provide some proof for that bold statement?

Not sure if it will go that fast , but i'm using any language that compiles to JS instead of using JS. That includes C#, but rather ClojureScript, PureScript & Shen. It is definitely already possible to never touch JS, however the debugging side of things is not very nice mostly... You have to dive into the generated JS and then have to think how it translates to your code... With webassembly that should be a lot better.

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