The ideas behind Boo are fresh and experimenting and they let us do great things with little effort. My hands ache every time I have to transform some collection into another using 10 lines of C# 2.0 when I could have done it using 2 lines of Boo. Getting lambda expressions and extension methods in C# 3 is a step forward, but Boo is already moving further ahead and giving us extension properties and a built-in abstract macro facility that enables us to write in-language DSLs.
Still, the risk of switching to Boo for real world apps is too big, and the tool support is too small at this time. Boo also needs to let me define my own generic types and methods before our relationship can move to the serious phase.
I wish there was some way I could support the authors of the Boo programming language. Money? Don’t have that much. Programming time? My family will leave me if I spend more pc-time.
Instead, here are a couple of words of appreciation: Boo brings the best from the functional style languages and the CLR. It provides ultimate power while still keeping tight focus on simplicity.
In a perfect world… (sigh)
