Microsoft Linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails

CWmike writes "Friday Microsoft will demonstrate integration between its new Silverlight browser plug-in and Ruby on Rails. Microsoft's John Lam, a program manager in the dynamic language runtime team, said in a recent blog item: 'Running Rails shows that we are serious when we say that we are going to create a Ruby that runs real Ruby programs. And there isn't a more real Ruby program than Rails.' Also at the event, Microsoft officials will demonstrate IronRuby, a version of the Ruby programming language for Microsoft's .Net platform, running a Ruby on Rails application."

Comments

Re:What's MSFTs Point?

[JoeCommodore]

Since Silverlight isn't cross platform, why bother? What part of Microsoft's "Windows Strategy" did you not hear about?

It has been quoted by Balmer, MSs entry into open source is "to bring better value to OUR customers" (emphasis is mine). If they get RoR developers to make Silverlight front ends, it benefits mainly MS customers (euphemism for MS may make more $ sales) - goal met.

Re:There's one difference

[Foofoobar]

Oh its not a corporation thats going to ream Microsoft for going with Ruby... it's the lack of scalability in Ruby that going to ream Microsoft. P.S. Twitter execs forced me to say that.