Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages

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."

Comments

Re:Getting screwed in both directions

[Timothy Brownawell]

Static languages make you do more of your thinking up front. Dynamic languages make it easier to just slap things together and worry about your sanity later.

Apparently a lot of web stuff has sufficiently trivial programming that you usually finish before you have to make a sanity check, so dynamic languages let you get off without thinking at all.

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Follow the money

[mrflash818]

In my opinion M$ cash cow is their 'all corporations seem forced to use' OS and their 'all corporations seem forced to use' office suite.

Anything else, based on the behavior during the company's history, fades away after big announcements that it will be 'the next big thing.'

Just follow the money.