http://avlooks.net/articles/2007/03/12/ms-interested-in-ruby en-us 40 Watching and Wondering <p><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/23/HNexpressionruby_1.html">Infoworld reports</a> that Microsoft is &#8220;very interested&#8221; in Ruby. Is this like the proverbial knock on the door, where the man says &#8220;We&#8217;re from the government, and we&#8217;re here to help?&#8221; Maybe. Is this a good boost for Ruby or the beginning of an &#8220;embrace and extend&#8221; attack? I can&#8217;t imagine that MS is very happy about the popularity of Rails: open-source, cross platform, unixy. I know the Rails team isn&#8217;t exactly friendly toward Windows. The core team is 100% Mac and <span class="caps">DHH</span> has said that he would be suspect of any applicants who used Windows as their development platform.</p> <p>In any event there is now a decent Rails <span class="caps">IDE</span> plugin for Visual Studio, <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&#38;A=http://weblog.infoworld.com/tcdaily/archives/2007/02/review_ruby_in.html&#38;source=searchresult">Ruby in Steel Developer</a> . But, if you are really serious about developing in Rails, get a Mac and use <a href="http://macromates.com/">TextMate</a>.</p> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:32:00 -0500 urn:uuid:9f4b6a6f-5a21-406f-b194-fad3c133790b av@avlux.net (Andrew) http://avlooks.net/articles/2007/03/12/ms-interested-in-ruby Ruby on Rails Tech Talk rubyonrails IDEs microsoft