
Microsoft representatives have been forecasting this move to AL in recent months, such as at Directions North America and Directions EMEA 2018. It has been modified a lot of times," said Peter "Bugsy" Christensen, group engineering manager at Microsoft, onstage at the NAVTechDays conference last week in Belgium ( recording available here). Today, they start from Dynamics NAV's application framework, which has evolved over 25 years. In the future, Microsoft expects Business Central to be constructed entirely of extensions, other than the platform and a thin system application. The end goal is a componentized application that gives partners more customization options and a product they can make open source on GitHub.

As Microsoft prepares to scale Dynamics 365 Business Central globally, the R&D team has expanded on its plans to transition the solution fully to the newer AL language with an extensions-based development model.
