IronRuby 0.9 released

The IronRuby project is moving full steam ahead of the release. The other day it was announced that the latest version of IronRuby 0.9 with a large set of changes was available before the release. Next will be minor versions with debugging and performance improvements. What is new in this release? And added a lot of tasty:

* added the ability to call Python codes from IronRuby;
* added a mechanism to work with Win32Ole to work with COM objects and ActiveX;
* Added transparent work with generics .net, so that code written in other languages. NET can be easily transparently invoked in IronRuby;
* explicit x64 support via ir64.exe;
* well, and closed a few bugs, improved performance and stability, everything is as usual for pre-release issues.

As for IronRuby, I want to say a couple of words:
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* Firstly, the project is almost finished, judging by the ironruby.info tests: 85.14% of the RubySpec tests were also completed with release 0.6;
* secondly, the implementation of Ruby on .NET allows you to use both the existing .net code from other languages ​​in IronRuby, and use ruby ​​code in your projects written, for example, in C #;
* thirdly, IronRuby is an open source project and works under Mono, which is also a big plus;
* fourth, IronRuby, according to developers, is twice as fast as MRI, which, of course, is also a huge plus.

All this is great news for .net developers who are eyeing ruby ​​or even already using ruby ​​codes for their projects. Well, for all rubists, this is also great news, the potential of Ruby is growing and the language is gaining more and more fans.