language parallax

I just noticed a story about Miscosoft’s Silverlight, IronRuby, and IronPython:

Meanwhile, the Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 CTP was disclosed, said to support JavaScript, C#, VB, Ruby, and Python.

Of note, the company is now supporting the IronPython dynamic language, and it made its first announcement of IronRuby.

“With the IronRuby announcement, even in its current CTP form, we are able to show interop with statically typed .NET libraries, and code written in JScript, VB, and Python,” Soma Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, wrote on his blog. “You can write Silverlight applications in Ruby on supported browsers for Mac and Windows.”

I’ll have to keep an eye on this project as well. Lots of projects trying to bridge disparate languages these days!!

Link: the Silverlight site