A week ago, I attended a PADNUG presentation by John Lam on the IronRuby project being done at Microsoft.  In short, IronRuby is a Ruby implementation that runs in the .NET CLR, and therefore has native access to the .NET libraries.

This both intrigued and confused me.  Last year, at Portland Code Camp 2.0, I attended a session on Iron Ruby.  That wasn’t presented by John.  I couldn’t figure out what was going on.  Well, today I found Wilco Bauwer’s blog.  Wilco’s the developer of the original IronRuby, and the presenter that I saw last year.  Apparently, the current IronRuby has no relation to Wilco’s project.  However, Microsoft did ask Wilco for permission to use the name, and he did agree.

At least, my confusion is now cleared up.

8/12/2007 10:11:15 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  development