IronRuby Talks

Over the past 10 days, I've presented IronRuby to about 1000 people. I gave talks at RubyConf (slides [6.4MB]), the Charlotte Developer's Guild, an internal talk in the Microsoft ECS series (slides [5.4MB]), and a keynote at the Patterns and Practices Summit (slides [5.4MB]).

My favorite talk was probably the ECS talk since I had 1.5 hours to do the talk (for internal folks, the recording has already been posted). There's a fun sequence of slides which compares and contrasts Ruby with C# 3.0. It's striking how C# with its local type inferencing and terse anonymous delegate syntax looks quite similar to Ruby blocks.

The recording for my RubyConf talk should be ready soon; keep an eye on the RubyConf site for an ETA. BTW, Microsoft sponsored the recording of all of the talks at RubyConf this year, yay us :)

Comments

[ChrisNTR]

Great stuff John,

I look forward to seeing the RubyConf videos :)

[SoftMind]

Hi,

IronRuby is floating in Apha -2 stage currently

What is the expected time frame for IronRuby to enter Beta Stage.

Shall we have Beta -1, Beta-2, followed by CTP and then RTM.

Pl. specify the time frames.

Thanks

[John Lam]

@SoftMind:

We don't have a schedule planned for when we're going to call it a "Beta". We will likely call it a Beta when we can run some significant set of programs (likely Rails) so we're at least 6 months out from that.

[Scott]

Any hope of getting those slides in PDF format for those of us without Powerpoint?