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Following up on that - Shooting from the hip, though, if the desire is for funding, I'm guessing Microsoft wouldn't see much strategic value in putting money i
by bunderbunder 8y ago
Following up on that -
Shooting from the hip, though, if the desire is for funding, I'm guessing Microsoft wouldn't see much strategic value in putting money into a Ruby extension. The Ruby ecosystem has largely congealed around an ASP.NET competitor, some devops tools that don't really work on Windows, and not much else. Python, on the other hand, is widely used in Microsoft shops. Windows shops need data scientists, too, and it's typically the primary language for cross-platform devops infrastructure.
- Scarbutt 8y agoMaybe that might change now that they bought github (heavy users of ruby) but I doubt it ;)
- bunderbunder 8y agoMaybe the GitHub people would do it independently? There's also just a question of which way the winds are blowing. I know the TIOBE index needs to be taken with a dose of salt, but it is interesting to see that Python is entering the top 3 at the same time that Ruby is falling behind Object Pascal.
- mcintyre1994 8y agoRuby also isn't one of their major languages they document things in Azure for. There is a Ruby gem, but no support for Ruby Azure functions or anything like that either. I wonder what the language mix is like for Azure deployments.