Last week JetBrains made a decision to bring on board the Core developers behind a project called Nemerle.
Nemerle is an Open Source project that provides a statically typed programming language for .NET, similar to C#. Recently it has been in the spotlight, with a few sessions on it at NDC, as well as an appearance on the popular podcast .NET Rocks.
N2
The main focus of the Nemerle team at JetBrains will be N2, a language framework that's primary goal is to make the development of languages and tools as easy and simple as possible, opening up great potentials for us at JetBrains, where our m