Are there any open source or commercial web programming language that function much like Fog Creek's Wasabi? As in you write your web app in this parent language and it then compiles down to php for Linux hosts and ASP.NET for Windows hosts. ...
On Joel Spolsky's blog, I often read something about "Wasabi" and if I check Wikipedia, it mentions that it's an in-house programming language. What is it? Why do they use it? And why isn't it public? ...
From what I've read it appears that FogBugz was originally written in VBScript. Now apparently they use their own custom compiler and language that will translate the source code to more "accessible" languages such as PHP and (I think) C#. Is there a name for this language? What does a hello world look like in it? Is there any hope of se...