MS interested in Ruby?

Posted by Andrew Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:32:00 GMT

Infoworld reports that Microsoft is “very interested” in Ruby. Is this like the proverbial knock on the door, where the man says “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help?” Maybe. Is this a good boost for Ruby or the beginning of an “embrace and extend” attack? I can’t imagine that MS is very happy about the popularity of Rails: open-source, cross platform, unixy. I know the Rails team isn’t exactly friendly toward Windows. The core team is 100% Mac and DHH has said that he would be suspect of any applicants who used Windows as their development platform.

In any event there is now a decent Rails IDE plugin for Visual Studio, Ruby in Steel Developer . But, if you are really serious about developing in Rails, get a Mac and use TextMate.