The lead on the Ruby.Net project throws his support behind IronRuby, though not all supporters agree with the move.
Two efforts to deliver an implementation of the Ruby language on the .Net platform have merged into one. Or have they?
Rather than continue to chase the same goal, Wayne Kelly, a lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology and the lead on the Ruby.Net project, said he is refocusing his efforts on Microsoft’s IronRuby implementation. The Queensland University of Technology is based in Brisbane, Australia.
However, some supporters of the Ruby.Net project are considering keeping it going as a “stepping stone” while IronRuby is being developed.
Kelly, who presented the progress of the Ruby.Net project Jan. 29 at the Lang.Net conference on Microsoft’s Redmond, Wash., campus, announced Feb. 4 that he now plans to support the IronRuby effort.
In a blog post Feb. 5, John Lam, a Microsoft engineer who is heading up the IronRuby project, extended a “warm welcome to Wayne, and we invite anyone else who wants to work on IronRuby to join our Open Source project. Microsoft Research funded a portion of the development of Ruby.net, and their parser lives on in IronRuby thanks to the excellent work that Wayne did in producing the Gardens Point Parser Generator.”
More: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Head-of-Ruby-Project-to-Support-Microsoft/