From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-28T20:33:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone interested In IronRuby

Rikard Lindby wrote:
> Is IronRuby just like Ruby except you get the .Net platform?
As I understand it, that's pretty much the intention, at least on a 
language level.  I *think* the intention is also to give Visual Studio 
support, but I'm not sure about that.

> If not, has MS contributed anything of what they have done to
> "improve" the language to the ruby community?
They've opened the source to their implementation (for certain values of 
"open" - there's still some aggro at the OSI about that), and they're 
working with Novell to get the DLR working on Mono.

> Or If it is just like ruby + .Net, why didnt MS work with the
> community to make the .Net stuff an extension to the real ruby,
> instead of taking from the community and locking it to their platform?
Licensing, in a word.  At least, that's the explanation that makes most 
sense to me...

-- 
Alex