Just to clarify, Wilco was the chap who, in 2006, worked on a project called IronRuby which aimed at implementing a Ruby interpreter for the .NET CLR. Recently Microsoft announced its own version of Ruby for .NET (not yet released but under development) which is also called IronRuby and which will run on a new ‘Dynamic language Runtime’ (DLR). In spite of their names and ‘job descriptions’, the two projects are unconnected. In a recent Blog entry, Wilco explains:
As part of the DLR, Microsoft is offering a bunch of dynamic languages, including Ruby. They’ve asked me if they could use the name IronRuby and I didn’t have any problems with that. This does not mean they are actually using the prototype I implemented about a year ago. The prototype I worked on is completely unrelated.
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