Microsoft cuts loose Iron languages

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 22, 2010 5:23 AM EDT
The Register; By Gavin Clarke
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Microsoft has officially ended a half-decade flirtation with building its own .NETized scripting languages, and it lost a languages guru to Google in the process. The company has handed code and project responsibility for IronRuby and IronPython to "the community," six years after it started the projects and then stuck them in limbo. The IronPython project will be coordinated by Miguel de Icaza, Michael Foord, Jeff Hardy and Jimmy Schementi, with de Icaza and Schementi also co-ordinating IronRuby. Schementi quit Microsoft in August, having complained about a "serious lack of commitment" to IronRuby and dynamic languages in general on .NET by the giant.

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It's quite interesting tracyanne 8 838 Oct 22, 2010 12:27 PM

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