Rails on .NET

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD

Just saw this and thought it was interesting…

It does sound interesting although they are working on 1.8.2.

AEM

Sounds like a very interesting academic research project. I don’t think
it’s
feasable though in the real world… I don’t see Microsoft pushing this
over
C# or VB.Net… and most Ruby devs I know wouldn’t touch .Net.

It’s still cool though.

It would be more interesting if they could make Ruby run faster under
Windows :slight_smile:

David Simmons, Smalltalker and dynamic language speed guru*, was
recently interviewed in Bitwise magazine, where he talked a little
about the challenges of putting dynamic languages on the CLR:

http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/S-Smalltalk-The-Next-Generation

He also talks a little about Ruby and complexity.

-faisal
-* and, in my case, friend and former boss. which is not to say i
always agree with him, but hey, disclosure.

Nathan L. wrote:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1996960,00.asp?kc=EWEAUEMNL080106EOAD

Just saw this and thought it was interesting…

  1. Embrace
  2. Extend
  3. Extinquish

Same old Microsoft as ever.

Brian H. wrote:

Sounds like a very interesting academic research project. I don’t think
it’s
feasable though in the real world… I don’t see Microsoft pushing this
over
C# or VB.Net… and most Ruby devs I know wouldn’t touch .Net.

It’s certainly worth “touching .NET” if it means you get access to the
Windows Forms APIs and to automatically access other C#.NET and VB.NET
code via the CLR. Even if this subset of classes were unmodifiable in a
meta-programming sense, it would be great to be able to do so.

Nic