I’m writing this in response to a recent post I wrote on my website, A Ruby Cast In Steel. While I appreciated the insight my experiments gave me into both IronRuby and WPF, the author ended up with a few conclusions I’d like me to revisit.

One of the first examples of using IronRuby on the web, possibly the first since it was the announcement of the project, was Scott Guthrie announcing the project and using WPF way back in 2007.

We’ve come a long way since then. But that’s all been internal to IronRuby. In addition, I’ve not seen the community truly embrace IronRuby as it has had some growing pains. I don’t mean to dis those working on the project, just look at my non-existent commit log to see how much of a leg I have to stand on if I where to dis them. I mean to say that I’ve not seen many people talking about using it in production. And until we see production IronRuby, we won’t be able to tell the wider .NET world how awesome working in ruby really is.