From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T08:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: cygwin's Ruby


On Oct 4, 2007, at 4:28 PM, John Lam (DLR) wrote:

>> 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
>
>
>
Does that mean there will be any books / tutorials on using IronRuby  
+ Silverlight coming soon? (hint hint nudge nudge)