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AJAX, APAX and ARAX and Microsoft Silverlight - what does it mean for you

According to microsoft, the Silverlight project will now support multiple asynchroneous technologies. AJAX originally was based on xml transport of updates while working with Java. With Silverlight platform you will be able to use other language plugins such as Ruby (the ARAX - Asynchroneous Ruby and XML) and Python (the APAX - Asynchroneous Python and XML). The whole premise is that you should be able to use any language of your choice when writing asynchroneous web 2.0 applications. Each language has its strengths and weaknesses and while a lot of developers are dead set on treating their preferred language as a hammer trying to go after every project with it, some of us have learned that there is time and place for each of the languages. For those of us, this shift will allow to use the best suited language for the particular application.

The support is going to be available as dynamic language runtime (DLR) plugin into dot net framework. The .NET framework allows for CLR (common language runtime) and the DLR is a subset of CLR in dotnet. With the plugin you will be able to freely exchange data with other languages, such as C# or VB or C++.

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