hi I stumbled about fan thanks to an entry on reddit (1). Fan looks very interesting and I'm definitely going to playing with it. One first (and maybe off topic question): how is this website made - with fan? It's very slick, especially the forum.

daniel

(1) http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/6fuat/comments/

Yes indeed - this website is built with Fan running on Linux with MySQL. We are using the wisp web server (written in Fan) and the discussion group is also a Fan application.

cool - would it be possible to make it accessible to the public?

All the framework pieces we are using for this site are in the public distribution:

• wisp: web server written in fan
• webapp: application framework
• haven: orm

Side note - all of those subsystems still need a lot of development work.

The actual discussion group app which is called "sidewalk" isn't public yet - it is kind of just a prototype to test out the other APIs right now. We might make it public once it is cleaned up.

and does sidewalk run on both the jvm and the clr? just curious ;-)

there are still a couple pieces missing from the .Net runtime to make that happen:

• we still have some threading issues in .NET
• we haven't implemented the sql API for .NET yet