Late last month, Jeffery Olson announced BooLangStudio on the Boo Language Users mailing list. Olson’s effort now makes it possible to write Boo code in Visual Studio 2008 and take advantage of Visual Studio IDE features.
The first release of the Visual Studio plugin is primarily a proof of concept and Olson warns developers:
Check it out at: http://www.codeplex.com/BooLangStudio
Please note that it is VERY rough around the edges currently. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK is a dependency, also. And lots of other stuff that I didn't mention.
The current release is version 0.1.2 and development on version 0.2 is actively progressing and is intended to feature:
- Syntax Highlighting
- Simple Intellisense
- An Installer
Around the same time, Cedric Vivier announced the latest release of Boo, 0.8.2 with the following enhancements from the Boo web site:
- (almost) complete nullable type support
- shorthand for nullable types and enumerables
- improved booish behavior with nicer colors
- 'else' block for 'for' and 'while loops
- fixes and improvement related to generic methods
InfoQ has covered Boo in the past providing a primer on the language and highlighted as an ideal host language for creating Domain Specific Languages.
