From: "John Lam (DLR)" <jflam@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T02:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Ruby (was Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet)

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [mailto:znmeb@cesmail.net]

> 1. Microsoft has a Ruby product in the works, which is called IronRuby.
> It is as I understand it an open source project, under development by a
> small team including John Lam. I haven't heard the latest status, but
> as
> of RubyConf 2007 it was still "under construction".

We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but we've now got a lot of the core language implemented. The last major pieces are the *_eval methods that accept strings as parameters, and that is tied to our implementation of the DLR hosting interfaces.

Library implementation is where we're weakest, but thanks to the awesome Rubinius spec suite, we've got a good definition of the work we have left to do.

-John