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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by tdicola on Friday January 23, 2015 @02:08PM (#8936602)
I would make a separate blog post on it and post that here, or even just an Ask HN type post.

That said it sounds interesting, but I would love to hear how committed the team is to keeping these things alive. What VP is behind PTVS and willing to put their butt on the line for it? I think a lot of people might still have a bad taste in their mouth after IronRuby and IronPython got a lot of attention from MS and then languished and were abandoned for years. Let's not let that happen again please.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics by smortaz on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:26PM (#8937727)
thx, tho i've had a hard time getting something to hit the front page to get enough data...

re PTVS/RTVS - the VP behind them is joseph sirosh. he's a huge Python & R fan & just gave us four more reqs to do more (where more == docker+linux+ipython/jupyter - ping if interested!).

re ironruby/ironpython - i hear you. tho note that ironpython at least is alive & well. PTVS itself supports all interpreters. our work is all open source so it helps a little.

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