Microsoft pulls out of the development of IronPython and IronRuby back or transferring responsibility to the open source community. The decision should not surprise much care for: IronPython lead developer Jimmy Schementi had in early August, shortly after he had left Microsoft, his displeasure expressed that his team had been halved within a year. This had been the reason, why it was needed so long, the Visual Studio support for IronPython finish. Therefore, it was obviously for a long time, no IDE support for Visual Studio added to IronRuby.

A prototype for this was Jason Zander, the development for the implementation of the two scripting languages, headed the now in a blog post announcing the changes in the two projects also explains the. The responsibility for the future development of IronPython assume from now on mono-chief programmer Miguel de Icaza, Michael Foord, Jeff Hardy and Schementi. The latter de Icaza and coordinate the further development IronRuby. All had previously been involved in the projects. For the community is changing, that it can now be made without the influence of Microsoft's changes to implementations.

Microsoft employees are highest unofficially participate in the projects. The response of the coordinators is mixed. Schementi sees Microsoft's rather positive step, Hardy is disappointed, however, is confident, year IronPython 2.7 release can use this too. Future things he sees are beyond the approach to Python 3.2, support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query) and the implementation of static compilation. With the end of the promotion of the projects is also accompanied the departure of Jim Hugunin, Microsoft has left Google in direction. He was also involved in development of IronPython and also records for the Python implementation for Java (Jython) and the Aspect J extension to Java with responsibility. Google, he should be server-side Java programming accept the.