# Ruby hit rocky ground at Microsoft

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 12, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164 "2010-08-12T10:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/archiloque)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164/1 "2010-08-12T10:00:28Z")

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Hi,

(I have only see this info on few place so FYI, even if many rubyists  
don’t particularly love Microsoft I think it’s a bad news for Ruby.)

“Microsoft’s open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded  
in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers  
departed the company last month.”

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Blog post from the developer  
[http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html](http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html)

Best regards

A.

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**Author:** ![archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/archiloque)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164/2 "2010-08-17T02:26:49Z")

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> “Microsoft’s open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded  
> in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers  
> departed the company last month.”

That’s too bad as I was somewhat excited about IronRuby with Silverlight  
as a “ruby in browser” opportunity…  
-r

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**Author:** ![archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/archiloque)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164/3 "2010-08-17T04:10:56Z")

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On 08/16/2010 05:26 PM, Roger P. wrote:

> > “Microsoft’s open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded  
> > in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers  
> > departed the company last month.”
> 
> That’s too bad as I was somewhat excited about IronRuby with Silverlight  
> as a “ruby in browser” opportunity…  
> -r

I keep hoping someone will use alchemy[1] to get ruby (in some limited  
form, at least) running on the flash vm. Most of the reasons I dislike  
flash have to do with actionscript, rather than the vm,

[1] [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy](http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy)

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**Author:** ![archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@archiloque](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/archiloque)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-hit-rocky-ground-at-microsoft/193164/4 "2010-08-17T04:17:58Z")

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> I keep hoping someone will use alchemy[1] to get ruby (in some limited form,  
> at least) running on the flash vm. Most of the reasons I dislike flash have  
> to do with actionscript, rather than the vm,

Yeah that or maybe an NaCl client [1]? Rubinius perhaps?

[http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/05/google-native-client.php](http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/05/google-native-client.php)