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reaktivo on Dec 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why don't they implement Python and Ruby on the we...

I remember being impressed by a Microsoft project[1] a few years ago that did exactly this, it seems it never took off.

[1] http://visitmix.com/labs/gestalt/

BrianLy on Dec 16, 2011 [–]

It's based on IronPython/IronRuby/DLR. I've been to a few PyCons and the CPython-based developers never seemed all that interested in it due to library support, and the majority of work happening on UNIX platforms. At the same time .NET developers didn't know what to do with this great set of tools.

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