Early look at IronRuby

re: Early look at IronRuby

Jared — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:24:31 GMT

I will be very interested in seeing a write up on the benefits and costs of Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), specifically regarding actual performance, maintainability, development costs, etc. I know some complexity overhead exists with .NET, and I will be curious is this overhead becomes greater when Dynamic Languages leverage .NET.

re: Early look at IronRuby

Somasegar — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:04:36 GMT

Have you checked out Jim Hugunin's blog? He has got a couple of very informative blogs on DLR.

http://blogs.msdn.com/hugunin/default.aspx

-somasegar

re: Early look at IronRuby

Josh Nursing — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:42:43 GMT

It's quite a feat, considering that there is support for WPF through .Net 3.x and also for Silverlight. If, however, IronRuby is extended in such a way that it becomes incompatible with Ruby, then observers will cry foul with good reason.

I have written a detailed tutorial about hacking IronRuby, including how I fixed a bug and how I extended it using Visual C# Express 2005, IDE for more comfortable development and debugging:

http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=145

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