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This year at Mix08 I was able to sit down with John Lam for a few minutes and discuss the IronRuby project. The MP3 is about 40 minutes long.

Download the MP3 here

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.

Instead of posting everytime new audio or video is posted, I added a new page to list them all. Lemme know if I missed any, and we’ll try to keep it updated. Audio and Video

Here are some links to some various podcasts and interviews where you can listen to John Lam discuss IronRuby, or at the time RubyCLR. I haven’t listened to all of them yet, but hope to by the end of the weekend. If I missed any please leave a comment and I’ll update the list!

John Lam on a recent .net rocks discussing DLR and and IronRuby/RubyCLR

Rubiverse recent interview with John Lam on a whole range of Ruby and IronRuby topics

John Lam and Jim Hugunin at Mix 07 on Ruby the DLR and Silverlight (video)

Jon Udell discussing Silverlight and the DLR with John Lam

Video interview with John Lam on the DLR from “announcement day”

Scott Hanselman discussing Ruby with John Lam at Teched 2006