Okay, I love Javascript.  It is hands down my favorite language (C# is a near second).  In fact, it was the first language I ever learned, even before having a good handle on html markup in the mid-90s.  I used it server-side with Livewire on Netscape server.  I transitioned to (now Cassic) ASP, and picked up vbscript (COM enumerations via JScript were so evil).  When .Net first came out, i hacked my way through using the JScript .net command-line compiler, and early ASP.Net (ASP+), after translating a litteral ton of code from VB.Net and C# samples, I caved and learned C#.  Allong the way, I picked up on several SQL Dialects, VB6, some perl and others; but I always get back to Javascript. More...

Okay, so it isn't so much embedding as it is hosting.  A lot of attention is going out to the use of the DLR for the upcoming Silverlight 2 release, which is great.  However, what gets lost is the simple ability to use the DLR as a scripting environment for your own projects.  More...