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I am disappointed in the near-abandonment of IronPython and IronRuby.

• chris_wot 13y ago
  But hey, you can use a tablet now that Microsoft's management have switched focus... to a market they have not much share in, almost no mindshare, little developer incentive to work on, that only contributes to a fraction of their revenue and with tools and an operating system that shoe-horns the much larger workstation market into a tablet interface that is neither intuitive or pleasant to work with. Hats off to Microsoft, clearly someone in management knows more than their own marketplace. Sometimes to be a market leader you must ignore the needs and wants of the market, after all leaders need to make the market go where you want it, right?
• innguest 13y ago
  I am as well. They were so close to propelling Ruby as the desktop language of choice. I remember how easy it was to program GUI in IronRuby...: button = Button.new button.text = 'Foo' button.location = Point.new(0,0) button.click {|sender, e| do_something} window.controls.add(button) Makes Qt and Gtk look like over-engineered monstrosities.