Oct 05 2007
IronMonkey: Bringing Ruby and Python support to Tamarin
This has to be one of the most exciting things that I have read in a long time. While reading this article on Read/Write Web about the Future of Web Apps conference I came across this little tidbit of information about a new project called IronMonkey:
‘IronMonkey’ will bring Python and Ruby support to the Tamarin runtime. Basically the goal seems to be to turn Tamarin into a multi-scripting-language runtime so rather than writing JS in web pages they developer could write python or ruby code…
Tamarin is of course also known as the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2 to be precise). So, this may be wishful thinking, but this could, potentially, mean that sometime in the distant future we would be using Ruby or Python in our Flash/Flex apps. Right now it looks like the project is just an idea, but it is definitely something to keep an eye on.