Hi there, In the last month I had 3 sessions about IronRuby, all of them in front of .Net audience. I really believe in the IronRuby but I find it very very hard to pass that to existing .Net developers. I try to show the benefits of using IR - getting things done faster (like POCs, internal tools), using REPL, using IR abilities from C#, IR and Silverlight (like Gestalt), unit testing, RoR... Most of the .Net devs are very conservative and are not willing to get out of their familiar development environment even when they see the clear benefits of the new technology. They feel that using IronRuby will take everything they love from them - Visual Studio, Ctrl+F5, the sacred intellisense, etc.
That's about what happens during a session: - No Visual Studio integration: 50% of the audience are willing to leave. - No compilation: more 25% have just lost interest. - Intensive command line work: more 15% are shutting down. That leaves about 10 perecent of the audience that just think of using IronRuby, most of them decide not to eventually. My question is - how do you suggest to present IronRuby to .Net developers? and to the team members - does Microsoft expect that existing .Net devs will start using IronRuby? Thanks! Shay. -- -------------------------------------------------- Shay Friedman Author of IronRuby Unleashed http://www.IronShay.com Follow me: http://twitter.com/ironshay
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