Forum: IronRuby Insight on the future of IronRuby ?

Hi guys (and girls, if any),

I'd really, really like to have any hint of where IronRuby and the DLR 
are
going, roughly.

We're considering using IR as a scripting engine for a fairly important
desktop app, so I thought I would ask, now that the dust has settled.

Any idea ?

thanks!

-- Thibaut

Is there any "official" work from Microsoft about these issues?

Thibaut Barrère wrote:
> Hi guys (and girls, if any),
> 
> I'd really, really like to have any hint of where IronRuby and the DLR 
> are
> going, roughly.
> 
> We're considering using IR as a scripting engine for a fairly important
> desktop app, so I thought I would ask, now that the dust has settled.
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> -- Thibaut

The official Microsoft position remains the same:

"At this time, we have no announcements to make beyond what we announced 
in July 2010 — that we were putting these [IronRuby and IronPython] 
under the Apache License v2.0. Clearly, there is customer and community 
interest in these languages. With many organizations running mixed IT 
environments, we continue to value community feedback on how we can 
support their interoperability needs, and we remain committed to 
supporting multiple tools and languages that provide developers with the 
most choice and flexibility."

Tomas