> That meant that existing scripting code that used those libraries would need to be rewritten to use an equivalent .NET library. We naively thought that was what people would do...
AFAIK, that's what JRuby does but Java had (has?) a bigger community and is more platform independent. Microsoft was a different company back then and wasn't supported on Linux. Betting on IronRuby/IronPython meant you had to use Windows as your platform.
AFAIK, that's what JRuby does but Java had (has?) a bigger community and is more platform independent. Microsoft was a different company back then and wasn't supported on Linux. Betting on IronRuby/IronPython meant you had to use Windows as your platform.