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Todays Flex 3 announcement also carried with it the announcement of an Adobe OSS site. I was looking around the Tamarin site when I noticed the IronMoney project. Being lead by Seo Sanghyeon, an IronPython developer, I at first thought it was an attempt to get ECMAScript Edition 4 running the DLR. However it seems to be an attempt to get IronPython and IronRuby to run on the Tamarin VM. What I can't figure out is why not attempt to run Python\Ruby on Tamarin? I guess in targeting the IL then IronMonkey can execute the assemblies but surely to help better shape the VM in it's support of dynamic languages why not target languages other than ECMAScript?

Posted: Feb 25 2008, 12:43 PM by andrewstopford | with 4 comment(s)
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Michael Foord said:

"What I can't figure out is why not attempt to run Python\Ruby on Tamarin?"

You mean why instead of re-using an existing implementation they don't re-implement both from scratch... no wait... ;-)

# February 25, 2008 8:27 AM

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Todays Flex 3 announcement also carried with it the announcement of an Adobe OSS site . I was looking

# February 25, 2008 9:20 AM

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# February 25, 2008 10:35 AM

Michael Foord said:

Implementing IronMonkey *will* require work on the VM. For example it likely means implementing 'DynamicMethod' which is needed for proper support of dynamic languages.

# February 27, 2008 4:00 AM