Microsoft lets go of IronPython and IronRuby

By tim, on October 22nd, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Visual Studio corporate VP Jason Zander has announced that IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of popular dynamic languages, are to be handed over to the open source community. This includes add-ons that enable development in Visual Studio, IronPython Tools and IronRuby Tools. Of the two, IronPython is a more mature and usable project.

Why? Here’s

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October 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: google, java, microsoft, professional, software development, visual studio | 2 comments

Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?

By tim, on August 7th, 2010 Follow tim on Twitter

Jimmy Schementi, until recently a Program Manager at Microsoft working on IronRuby, has posted about why he is leaving the company; and in doing so answers a question I posed a few months back, Why F# rather than IronPython in Visual Studio 2010?

When my manager asked me, “what else would you want to work

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August 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: microsoft, professional, ruby, visual studio | Leave a comment