"The speculation is over and today is the day Microsoft takes the developer covers off of Silverlight. There are a bunch of announcements today, so I'll break them down one by one, but for those in a hurry, here's the summary. First, Microsoft is announcing that the CLR will be a part of Silverlight (Channel 9 has a video with Scott Guthrie about this). Two, they are also announcing a Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) which is open source and will allow developers to write dynamic languages to be compiled into .NET bytecode. The DLR will be open sourced under the Microsoft Public License. Third, Windows Live will provide Silverlight developers a way to deploy applications on their service by implementing a hosted solution around Windows Live.

The run down
Microsoft is giving out bits for two versions of Silverlight. The first is a beta of version 1.0. This includes Windows Media support and the other parts of the announcement that was made at NAB. Previous releases were all CTPs so for the beta the code is a bit cleaner and much closer to the final release. The second announcement is that the alpha version of Silverlight 1.1 is available. This release includes support for the CLR on the Mac and other developer related features that are going to make the RIA space much more interesting." (ZDNET)


Imagine, Python on SilverLight.