Microsoft releases initial support for "IronRuby"

Posted Jul 25th 2007 9:30PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Developer, Windows, Microsoft

Microsoft, the captains of closed source, have officially taken the first steps to support Ruby within the .Net environment, a move seen as a way to cozy up to the upcoming generation of hardcore web developers who've cut their teeth on the Ruby language.

Released under the "Microsoft Permissive License", IronRuby uses the Dynamic Languages Runtime to get the job done. Support at this point is extremely preliminary, but Microsoft says it hopes to release IronRuby on RubyForge, and take submissions and additions from the wider community. Eventually, support for Ruby apps on Microsoft's Silverlight platform will be forthcoming; a bit of good news for a fair number of developers

Tags: Microsoft, Ruby, Silverlight

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