Dot Not Use This Version of Ruby
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-03-17 10:58:21 UTC
- Modified: 2008-03-17 10:58:21 UTC
Microsoft 'extending' Ruby with .NOT [sic]
Among the good news today is the fact that
Apache continues to gain, despite
Microsoft's attempts to game the system. At the moment, Microsoft tries to snatch Apache away from GNU/Linux and put it on top of Windows instead [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6].
Performance tweaks is one thing, but what if Microsoft 'extended' software or languages its own way just as it did with Java? The news today comes from the Register and it speaks about the .NET-oriented version of Ruby. You might still recall the recent news about a project dying/being merged so that developers fall under Microsoft's wing (or wrath). Here is the latest:
Microsoft hopes to deliver the .NET-tuned implementation of the phenomenally popular Ruby, IronRuby 1.0, by the end of this year.
We wrote about Ruby in this context on several occasions in the past [
1,
2,
3,
4]. Always remember that Microsoft wants Ruby developers to be Windows-dependent, Microsoft-dependent, Microsoft licence-dependent and it wants to deprive rival platforms. It remains a selfish gesture whose purpose is
only to serve Microsoft. Nothing has ever changed at Redmond,
except pretense.
⬆
"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. [...] Do encourage fragmentation of the Java classlib space."
--Ben Slivka, Microsoft
Comments
Logan
2008-03-17 16:59:49
Bet yet: .NYET (russian for NO)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-03-17 20:58:57
Ironically, the name also gives away its role as an embrace, extend and extinguish ambition (replacing the Web). See this good interview with timbl (from yesterday):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7299875.stm
Josh Charles
2008-03-18 13:20:43
Your conclusion that "Microsoft wants Ruby developers to be Windows-dependent, Microsoft-dependent, Microsoft licence-dependent and it wants to deprive rival platforms" is not supported by the evidence at all.
FAIL!
Victor Soliz
2008-03-18 16:36:04
Of course that's what Microsoft wants I could deliver you simple quotes like "I'd like all open source to run on top of windows" ~ Steve Ballmer, but that's way too easy.
There mere fact that MS is pushing it on .net is enough evidence, regardless of any attempts to trivialize or minimize it .
Roy Schestowitz
2008-03-18 19:30:25
It's a fact, not a conspiracy or a speculation. We sometimes make speculations, but this is hardly one of them.
Niklas Brzesinski
2008-03-18 21:39:54
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2008-03-18 21:55:00
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