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We recently had the great news of seeing two of the JRuby team being paid to work on it via Sun Microsystems.

Today, John Lam posted that he got snapped up by Microsoft to work on RubyCLR.

He jokes about how:

I�ll be working in the CLR team to help bring the love of dynamic languages out to the statically typed heathens :)

He has a lot of people on his side in that team. Obviously, there are the likes of Jim Hugunin (IronPython), but also a lot of the old guard are from the land of LISP back in the day, so they sit back and laugh at everyone.

VM's are such a huge part of the future of computing, that having Ruby work on those runtimes is important. It is great to see companies stepping up to help fund the effort, so the projects can go from being "work on the side for fun" to the #1 item on the list for that person.

Congrats to Microsoft for a great hire. I expect John and Tom/Charles will be chatting a lot at Rubyconf :)