Microsoft Silverlight to back Ruby, Python in browser

[edw519]

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/06/Microsoft-Silverlight-to-back-Ruby-Python-in-browser_1.html

[neovive]

This is a very strategic and clever move by Microsoft to try to leverage the strong developer communities of Ruby and Python in order to gain grassroots support for Silverlight. If PHP support was also added, as discussed, it would be especially interesting.