[Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

[Huw Collingbourne]

Well we are getting some interesting comments on the post on our site so 
I don't want to repeat myself too much in this thread ;-)

Suffice to say, while we have provided free IDEs for Ruby and IronRuby, 
we are a commercial company so we have to take a very hard-headed view 
of where our most profitable future path may be. For us to resume work 
on our Visual Studio IronRuby IDE, we really need to be convinced that 
there is a market for this among professional Visual Studio developers. 
While it is, I suppose, possible that people have been silently waiting 
for us to produce new versions of our IronRuby IDE, all I can say is 
that it has been our experience that when a body of programmers is using 
your IDE regularly, they don't stay silent. When we were in the beta 
development of our standard Ruby IDE, we had a lot of user feedback. The 
same is now true of the IDE we are building for Adobe Flex.

The future of our IronRuby IDE is not something we are going to decide 
overnight. We'll certainly keep a close eye on the IronRuby forums and 
we'll no doubt carry on the discussion on our own forums and blog before 
we arrive at a final decision. Given the work we initially put into the 
alpha IronRuby IDE (the form designer etc.) it would be personally 
satisfying to take it up to the same level of development as our Ruby 
and Flex IDEs. At the moment, we are not completely convinced that 
diverting back resources into that would be a sound business decision. 
But if we do get the sense that there genuinely is an upwelling of 
interest among professional .NET / Visual Studio developers we shall, of 
course, pay very close attention to that! ;-)

best wishes

Huw

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