From: "John Lam (DLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T06:28:16+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby

> From: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [mailto:znmeb@cesmail.net]
>
> I'm guessing this answer isn't going to please a lot of people, but in
> my opinion, your realistic options on a Windows platform are probably
> jRuby and IronRuby, in that order. jRuby is in great shape as far as I
> can tell, and it might well be faster than Cygwin Ruby by now. I'll let
> John Lam speak for the status of IronRuby, but for now it looks like
> jRuby is a few months ahead of it.

Well, jRuby is quite a bit ahead of where we are right now; we've got our work cut out for us. But that said, our goal is to make IronRuby the Ruby of choice on the Windows platform ... and for the OS X browser platform as well via our cross-platform CoreCLR implementation that ships in Silverlight.

-John