Some recent podcasts
Earlier this week I listened to Scott Bellware on Rubiverse on moving to ruby, and his thoughts on IronRuby. He seems relatively skeptical on IronRuby with some very just reasoning. He does make one very important point with IronRuby though, it will only be as good as the community makes it. John Lam and team can only go so far within the confides of the MS campus, and none of the other Ruby implementations have been completed in a bubble, they have all benefited greatly from an active community. Isn’t that the name of the game with open source anyway?
In any case, the podcast is a great listen, and should hopefully get you motivated to become active with IronRuby, because we all want to see it succeed right? 
Craig Murphy also just posted a podcast with interviews of Michael Foord and Dave Verwer named the men of ruby Iron (Thanks Mike Moore). It covers IronRuby, IronPython, and the DLR. I haven’t listened yet, but just subscribed to the feed.
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September 30th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Thanks for the Rubiverse mention. I’m quite pleased with my conversation with Scott Bellware. His ALT.NET conference is this next weekend and I look forward to discussing Ruby with many of the .NET folks in attendance.
I’m listening to Craig Murphy’s podcast now. Great find!
September 30th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Thanks for the podcast! I’ll be listening to future episodes for sure. That was a great conversation with Scott, it’s interesting to hear his take on the Ruby vs. .net topic. I didn’t think he was so entrenched in the ruby space already, though..
Have fun at alt.net, I’d love to make it to one of those one of these days.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:22 am
IronRuby does have the great advantage that it isn’t starting from scratch. The DLR provides an enormous amount of the infrastructure needed for creating a dynamic language on .NET and IronRuby is already well beyond ‘proof-of-concept’.
To those who doubt it is possible, take a look at how far IronPython has gone, operating within the same constraints (in fact with more constraints as IronRuby is more open to community contributions than IronPython is or was).