Boo, a .NET CLI language similar to Python
I find Boo to be a neat language for the .NET CLI. It is based on python syntax but compiles and uses MSIL. I find it interesting because it allows you to easily extend the language with Syntactic Attributes. These enable you to move your VIM/editor auto completes into the code itself; why should you need to write getter and setter methods over and over? Build in the syntactic sugar as you need it. For example:
// Standard getter/setter
class person:
FirstName as string:
get:
return _fname
set:
_fname = value
// With Syntactic Attribute
class person:
[getter(FirstName)]
_fname as string
Boo also gives you Macros, some people are probably horrified to hear this, however they enable great things if used properly. I personaly enjoy having macros around for building quick Domain Specific Languages Hopefully I’ll have time to use this in the up coming months.