This years Mix conference was a lot of fun, and added to the IronRuby story a bit. On the first day of the conference I was able to score an interview with Mr. John Lam himself, and meet John Messerly as well. It was a great pleasure to meet and talk with both Johns, and you can hear my interview here. Dave Laribee also interviewed John on his neat little streaming phone, you can see that video here.
On Thursday John Lam had a Ruby Ruby Ruby session where members of the IronRuby and DLR teams fielded questions from the community. You can see the video from this session here.
Friday, though, was the big event. John Lam and Jimmy Schementi gave their presentation where we got to see IronRuby, IronPython, and some c# all running in silverlight in the browser at the same time. They showed us Chiron, a web server built for silverlight development, and introduced us to dynamicsilverlight.net, the place where you can get all the tools they were showing off. The presentation was great fun, and I suggest you watch it here. John Lam also posted a deeper walkthrough of everything in the presentation in a three part series on his blog, part1, part2, part3.
My main take away, MS is very serious about Silverlight and IronRuby. I’m even more convinced of it after being at mix, and talking to MS and non-MS folks. I’ve also become a believer in Silverlight, I went to mix a skeptic, but was very impressed both with capability and matureness. It’s time to start learning Silverlight because, at least in my opinion, it’s going to be big.
