From: Mike Moore <blowmage@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T04:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft brings Ruby to the browser?

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On 5/1/07, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ljmorsillo@yahoo.com wrote:
> > There is more meat to this now that MIX07 has concluded.
> >
> > There will be the Dynamic Language Runtime which extends the CLR.
> >
> >>From Miguel De Icaza (http://tirania.org/blog/)
> > Binaries of the DLR were released as part of Silverlight 1.1, and the
> > source code was included with IronPython 2.0 (also released today).
> >
> > The release for the DLR is done under the terms of the Microsoft
> > Permissive License (MsPL) which is by all means an open source
> > license. This means that we can use and distribute the DLR as part of
> > Mono without having to build it from scratch. A brilliant move by
> > Microsoft.
>
> Can someone confirm (or not) that this means one can write Ruby code,
> compile it to DLR, and run it on Mono?


Yes, when IronRuby is released it should run just fine on Mono, just as
IronPython runs today.  Miguel's latest blog entry states that he is
planning on using Microsoft's DLR code directly in Mono.  They can do that
because of the license Microsoft is using for IronPython, IronRuby, and the
DLR.

In fact, it looks like Mono may be implementing the Linux version of the
Silverlight plug-in using the Mono code-base.

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-01.html

I.e., I can write and deploy Ruby.net code all on my Linux boxen?
>
> That would be super bad.
>
> --
> James Britt
>
> "I can see them saying something like 'OMG Three Wizards Awesome'"
>    - billinboston, on reddit.com
>
>

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