Would help to explain what Wasabi is. I have never heard of it and from briefly looking around on this site, I still don't understand what it is.

Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777829

http://jacob.jkrall.net/wasabi-the-parts/introduction.html this doesn't suffice? It's the very first chapter.

Only by the end of the third paragraph does it even become apparent that Wasabi is a programming language.

If this is the book that FogCreek gave to new developers, those developers would have been told "Wasabi's our internal dialect of BASIC; and we added functional programming language features to it."

I'd never heard of it until this post. And I'm no noob (read: I am old).

Is Wasabi available for people to play with? Maybe open sourcing it would save it, if only as an academic or historical curiosity.

You have to try pretty hard: the compiler and runtime are available in closed-source form for FogBugz For Your Server installations, in the Accessories directory.

I'm also planning on open sourcing the new Roslyn-based code generator. I don't currently have any plans to open-source the rest of it.

In the original blogpost, they (FogCreek) say they're going to go over and open source at least some of it in a follow-up post.