I'm about to start a .NET project, slated to be written mostly in ugly
C# (uggh!) Would it be possible to use Ruby behind the scenes instead?
I don't know much about CRL, assemblies, etc.
Have anyone tried Ruby on .NET? Is the port even planned?
There's already various proxies that can let Ruby code talk to .NET one.
I'd consider those to be quite stable already.
That aside there are / were various projects about making Ruby a native
language of the .NET framework. I think currently there is a Japanese
one (sorry, I don't have much information about it) and the one Jaen
Saul and me are working on.
I really can't say much about our version of Ruby.NET right now -- I was
initially assigned to work on JScript.NET's runtime until the compiler
essentials were finished. Start on the Ruby.NET runtime was planned to
start at the beginning of this month, but will probably only start on
this weekend. That's probably also the time that I and the general
public will start seeing code. We've also had a few people offering to
help out, but I'm not sure if that offer is still current after the
delaying.
Even though this all might sound a bit bad, I'm still optimistic that we
will be able to execute some code before the end of this month, but
please do not expect too much. Making all this faster than the regular
Ruby implementation is pretty much out of the scope -- interoperability
is an important goal, but that might not end up in an usable state,
either...
If you are still interested in this you can have a look at the proposals:
*
http://jaen.saul.ee/index.php/2005/07/01/rubynet-proposal/
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http://flgr.0x42.net/proposal.txt
If you are willing to help out or have further questions feel free to
mail me.
