Oct 05
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.
October 5th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Yea, I saw this in the Tamarin session at MAX. It’s a possible addition. Also AS4 (JS 1.7) looks like it will be getting some more dynamic language features as well as more Java 5 type features, like a ‘yield’ statement and typed arrays and java style Vectors. It’s really strange how the language is moving it both directions…
October 6th, 2007 at 2:54 am
I was just thinking this morning how great it would be to be able to use Python in Flex Apps. I have recently been learning Python and the features are impressive. When I read about the neat stuff they could do with Jython I had some quick wishful thinking myself.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:20 am
“sometime in the distant future we would be using Ruby or Python in our Flash/Flex apps”
This should be considered important in the near term by Adobe as for us Ruby people multi-language support is currently a distinguishing feature between Flash and Silverlight in favor of Silverlight.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 2:19 am
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