{"id":376,"date":"2007-10-24T09:44:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2007-10-24T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T08:44:11","slug":"microsoft-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/376-microsoft-ruby.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is partially a response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=374\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>, Bob Warfield asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/logiccolony.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/jruby-facts-ruby-cultivated-and-vigorously-supported-by-sun\/\">Sun has \u201ccultivated and vigorously supported\u201d Ruby<\/a>.&nbsp; When will we read something similar to either announcement from Microsoft, instead of reading things like they\u2019re going to quit shipping the JVM at the end of the year?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At least this one is easy. Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/somasegar\/archive\/2007\/04\/30\/mix-07-silverlight-shines-brighter.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">announced Iron Ruby<\/a> back in April.<\/p>\n<p>But Iron Ruby runs on .NET. Right, so what does Sun&#8217;s Ruby run on? The JVM, of course.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I cannot think of any good reason why Microsoft should revive its JVM &#8211; withdrawn, you recall, at Sun&#8217;s insistence. Microsoft&#8217;s JVM was horribly out-of-date anyway; and there are several perfectly good JVMs that run fine on Windows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c878a676-1070-4e69-9fd7-3e8e4bd593c7\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/iron%20ruby\" rel=\"tag\">iron ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft%20jvm\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft jvm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is partially a response to my earlier post, Bob Warfield asks: Sun has \u201ccultivated and vigorously supported\u201d Ruby.&nbsp; When will we read something similar to either announcement from Microsoft, instead of reading things like they\u2019re going to quit shipping the JVM at the end of the year? At least this one is easy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/376-microsoft-ruby.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft Ruby<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}