Microsoft announces IronRuby

Ruby
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Interesting.

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6180322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

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Tim H. wrote:

Interesting.

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6180322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Do we know if that’s the same as this?

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx

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Alex Y. wrote:

Tim H. wrote:

Interesting.

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6180322.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

Do we know if that’s the same as this?

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx

I would be very surprised if it was. Last I’d heard IronRuby was mostly
dead, and I’m sure it wasn’t written to fit this new “dynamic language
runtime” Microsoft has announced. I’d wager they co-opted the name from
Wilco and are running with their own internal implementation.

  • Charlie
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Charles Oliver N. wrote:

Do we know if that’s the same as this?

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx

I would be very surprised if it was.

I suspect it’s a merge between IronRuby and RubyCLR. Remember John L.
(author of RubyCLR) now works for Microsoft, along side Jim Huginin(?)
of IronPython and Jython fame.

I can’t wait for the day when I can fully use RSpec for both Java and
.NET projects. :smiley:

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On 5/1/07, Guido <“”@.> wrote:

On 2007-05-01 09:46:46 +0200, Alex Y. [email protected] said:

Do we know if that’s the same as this?

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx

No, it is derived from RubyCLR by John L.:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304541

I don’t believe it is derived from RubyCLR. Apparently it is a new
implementation of Ruby using some of the core of IronPython and was in
development before John L. arrived at Microsoft.

Tim Heuer has a video interview with John that goes into more detail
about
the Ruby version and the Dynamic Language Runtime. Good stuff.

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Guido wrote:

On 2007-05-01 09:46:46 +0200, Alex Y. [email protected] said:

Do we know if that’s the same as this?

http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby.aspx

No, it is derived from RubyCLR by John L.:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304541

It’s definitely not derived from RubyCLR, since that was just a bridge
to the C implementation of Ruby (MRI) and this is a CLR-native
implementation.

I’ll bet anyone a beer it’s all new code, unrelated to Wilco’s IronRuby
and John’s RubyCLR (and even Queensland University’s Ruby.NET).

  • Charlie