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Posted by Werner Schuster on Apr 30, 2007
At their MIX07 conference Microsoft has just announced IronRuby, a Ruby implementation running on the .NET CLR. In this, IronRuby is similar to JRuby on the Java VM, and must not be confused with tools like Ruby/.NET Bridge which only connect a Ruby interpreter with a .NET VM.The new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) adds a small set of key features to the CLR to make itHe also points out that the source for IronPython and the new DLR are available.
dramatically better. It adds to the platform a set of services designed explicitly for the needs
of dynamic languages. These include a shared dynamic type system, standard hosting model and support
to make it easy to generate fast dynamic code. With these additional features it becomes dramatically
easier to build high-quality dynamic language implementations on .NET. More importantly, these features
enable all of the dynamic languages which use the DLR to freely share code with other dynamic languages
as well as with the existing powerful static languages on the platform such as VB.NET and C#.
We hope they[Microsoft] will join us in helping to build a community spec for Ruby and a common set of open-source compatibility tests.Asked for a general comment on Microsoft joining the Ruby space, Charles O. Nutter says:
It's good to see Microsoft has also seen the potential of Ruby, and that they're getting started on their own Ruby implementation. It validates the time and effort we've put into JRuby, and helps emphasize the importance of Ruby and other dynamic languages on the JVM.
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Hello, does this announcement means that the product is available in full form? I downloaded a package but it seems to be like a beta/testing product.
IronRuby isn't available yet. What you can download is a new version (plus source) of IronPython at codeplex.com/IronPython
IronRuby should become available in the next few months, although it's not clear how complete it will be and how compatible it will be to Ruby 1.8.x.
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