This is project created by Kevin Gadd and here is his description of how it works:
JSIL is a compiler that transforms .NET applications and libraries from their native executable format - CIL bytecode - into standards-compliant, cross-browser JavaScript. You can take this JavaScript and run it in a web browser or any other modern JavaScript runtime. Unlike other cross-compiler tools targeting JavaScript, JSIL produces readable, easy-to-debug JavaScript that resembles the code a developer might write by hand, while still maintaining the behavior and structure of the original .NET code. Because JSIL transforms bytecode, it can support most .NET-based languages - C# to JavaScript and VB.NET to JavaScript work right out of the box.
Check out the the demos:
- Try writing C# here: http://jsil.org/try/
- Tetris game: http://hildr.luminance.org/Tetris/Tetris.html
- Lumberjack game: http://hildr.luminance.org/Lumberjack/Lumberjack.html
- RayTracker demo: http://hildr.luminance.org/Raytracer/Raytracer.html
- Mannux game: http://hildr.luminance.org/Mannux/Mannux.html
In addition to a really powerful combination of technologies, here is what I really like about this site:
- Clearly explains what it does
- Allows the user to Try it now (of course that running the code in the browser helps)
- REPL environment on browser
- Very social with direct links into creating GISTs with the code created
- First step to using it is a Git Pull and active encourage of Git Forking
- Little mascot :)
I really want to see if I can integrate this with the O2 Platform since this could be the missing piece that I was missing to create jO2: the port of parts of O2 into Javascript :)
