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Microsoft cuts loose Iron languages

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Microsoft has officially ended a half-decade flirtation with building its own .NETized scripting languages, and it lost a languages guru to Google in the process. The company has handed code and project responsibility for IronRuby and IronPython to "the community," six years after it started the projects and then stuck them in limbo. The IronPython project will be coordinated by Miguel de Icaza, Michael Foord, Jeff Hardy and Jimmy Schementi, with de Icaza and Schementi also co-ordinating IronRuby. Schementi quit Microsoft in August, having complained about a "serious lack of commitment" to IronRuby and dynamic languages in general on .NET by the giant.

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Comments (9)

tracyanne ·
that Microsoft seems to be losing a lot of very smart technical people.
r_a_trip ·
It's scary too. What if the braindrain leaves a husk full of legacy code, software patents and lawyers....
tracyanne ·
That's where I think Microsoft is heading.
TxtEdMacs ·
Hey don't forget us loyal shills. Husk fertilize the soil, we grow things ... like law suits and intimidation and ... *

YBT

* Searching for words. Looking up my Mafioso friend's number as we speak.
r_a_trip ·
Searching for words.

RICO act violations?
bigg ·
Has anyone here used these "Iron" languages? I haven't. Do they bring anything useful to the table, or are they an attempt at lock-in?
TxtEdMacs ·
Hey tripper,

You got it all wrong. Everyone knows you need your daily iron dose to keep your bloods happy ... I mean healthy. Don't be too critical if you health flags in the face of these elite thugs, but that's the way of the world. Brought to you by the helpful team that ransacks your facility to make sure all licenses are valid and paid for properly.

YBT
hkwint ·
bigg: Not used it, but I think it's merits are 'better integration' with other .NET stuff. So I think it's only useful if you were already working with Mono.

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