Welcome to the age of dynamic languages.


Check out the post by Scott Guthrie and John Lam on the first drop of IronRuby. The source code compilers under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 1 without any problem.

 

The march of Dynamic Language continues

"The study, which should be released in August, is based primarily on the work of Forrester senior analysts Jeffrey Hammond and Michael Goulde. During their research, the pair discovered that, although the current boom in the use of languages such as Ruby, PHP and Python may resemble the Visual Basic boom of the 1990s, this time there are some distinct differences.


“These dynamic languages are creating very strange bedfellows,” said Hammond. “With these languages, some are open source, and in some cases you have multiple commercial vendors pushing on a single language. You’ve got Sun with JRuby and Microsoft with IronRuby. Having these traditional vendors cooperating and collaborating around these languages is interesting. It’s not your traditional .NET versus Java battle.”" (SD Times)

 

Learn Python or Ruby and mix it with C# 3.0. It's one of the most amazing combination ever.

With IronRuby, it is easier now to write DSLs in .Net other than using the clunky DSL toolkit.