An anonymous reader writes "Though Microsoft had initially made a commitment to create versions of dynamic languages that are customized for .NET, recent reports make it clear that the company may be stepping back from this plan. Much early speculation on this change in focus comes from Jim Schementi, previously the program manager in charge of Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby software known as IronRuby. Schementi reports on his blog that the team dedicated to working on IronRuby has decreased to one employee. According to Schementi, his departure from the company came as Microsoft began to display a 'serious lack of commitment' to any .NETized dynamic languages, including IronRuby."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F08%2F13%2F1515208%2FMicrosoft-May-Back-Off-of-NET-Languages" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Microsoft+May+Back+Off+of+.NET+Languag es%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fc8xWvx" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/1515208/Microsoft-May-Back-Off-ofnobr-wbrnobrNET-Languages?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFfyiGYFgSoG26MS0O-tPlmBlgg/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFfyiGYFgSoG26MS0O-tPlmBlgg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFfyiGYFgSoG26MS0O-tPlmBlgg/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jFfyiGYFgSoG26MS0O-tPlmBlgg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Zmc5PhysO1U" height="1" width="1"/

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