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Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages

Posted by Soulskill on from the lost-the-spark dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Though Microsoft had initially made a commitment to create versions of dynamic languages that are customized for .NET, recent reports make it clear that the company may be stepping back from this plan. Much early speculation on this change in focus comes from Jim Schementi, previously the program manager in charge of Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby software known as IronRuby. Schementi reports on his blog that the team dedicated to working on IronRuby has decreased to one employee. According to Schementi, his departure from the company came as Microsoft began to display a 'serious lack of commitment' to any .NETized dynamic languages, including IronRuby."

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  1. Re:Confusion likely in Programming sphere by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And, now this news that M$ might give up developing .NET any further adds to serve more confusion.

    This isn't news that Microsoft isn't developing .NET any further. It is about Microsoft cutting back developers for dynamic languages being developed on top of .NET. Maybe you need to go back to 1st grade and learn some reading comprehension?

  2. Re:Confusion likely in Programming sphere by StormReaver · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And, now this news that M$ might give up developing .NET any further adds to serve more confusion.

    Shitty as .NET is, development on it isn't stopping (sadly). Microsoft is stopping its efforts to convert interpreted languages to the .NET runtime, but the disease known as .NET will continue to fester until Microsoft finds yet another popular technology to (badly) imitate.