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Asynchronous Ruby and XML.  You heard it folks, Asynchronous Ruby.  Guess who is pushing it?  Yeap, Microsoft.  It will be completely integrated into the Silverlight package that Microsoft is failing miserably to spread across the internet.  Frankly, why would they succeed in getting programmers to use Silverlight - Microsoft still uses Flash.

Can ARAX overcome the overwhelming appeal of AJAX?  I doubt it, mostly after reading the following:

Indeed, Galbraith said, “As long as Windows/Office dominates Microsoft’s balance sheet, these cross-platform Microsoft plays always feel a bit like the story of the boy who upon encountering a rattlesnake picks it up after it promises not to hurt him, upon which the snake promptly bites. After the boy protests, the snake says: ‘You knew what I was when you picked me up.’ No matter what capabilities Silverlight may have, I think most of us in the community simply wouldn’t dream of embracing architectures dependent on Microsoft’s goodwill to support other OS vendors.”

Dion Almaer, the other co-founder of Ajaxian.com, said, “It is interesting to note that you have been able to use JRuby to run Ruby in the browser for quite some time … IronRuby is great. Getting more languages into the browser is great.”