An interesting Infoworld article I came across this morning has Forest Key of Microsoft telling some internet chatters that they are “very interested” in Ruby. Well, they did hire John Lam, so I’m sure there is some truth to that, but it was in relation to the Expressions toolkit, so it will be interesting to watch what is going on there.
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So, pretend I’m ignorant about almost all things Microsoft. Why is this worth watching?
Well said, pate. I will be watching it because I want to find all kinds of fun ways to infiltrate MS with Ruby and dynamic languages.
Or, think about it like this (which is a long shot, admittedly) – let’s say they integrate Ruby into the Expressions tool. Maybe they use a DSL for settings or other modifications, or create a plug-in structure around it. It furthers having dynamic languages, and opens Ruby up to a new set of people who have never seen it before.
In other words, some people never see things until Microsoft does something with them – which is why I am now asked all the time about Agile and TDD since MS released the default process of Team System as being “Agile for MSF”.
Of course, I guess it could be all bad too, in that they don’t actually implement Ruby, but some MS version, but we’ll see.