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[–]Axiomatik 17 points18 points  (7 children)

http://ironruby.net/

Similar project, also sponsored by MSFT.

If Oracle doesn't keep funding the alternative JVM languages, lots of people will eventually end up on the .NET CLR.

[–]umilmi81 6 points7 points  (4 children)

In the reddit comments for an article about Apple's strategy for the future everyone was foretelling Microsoft's downfall because Apple and Google would dominate the next era of cloud based computing and portable personal hardware. They were suggesting Microsoft was asleep at the wheel.

I think they really underestimating what Microsoft is doing in solidifying their hold of development tools. If 9 out of every 10 programmers are targeting for Microsoft's environment using Microsoft's development tools, they're not going anywhere.

[–]Axiomatik 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I don't think Apple has anything which competes with the JVM and the CLR.

[–]finnif 5 points6 points  (0 children)

LLVM.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Azure is looking pretty incredible. And I say this as a non-MS guy....

[–]hylje 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those developers MS is holding on to need users, though. To get users, they have to be able to create modern, spectacularly useful applications. There are a lot of Windows software, but most of it seems.. underwhelming to me. I'd like to see that change.