On Aug 6, 10:21 pm, kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: > With all due respect to Charlie and his team (and I do have the deepest > respect for him and Thomas), if the world was on the Ruby bandwagon I'd > agree. However the world is on the Java bandwagon and this make the Java > integration portion even more important. But with only 2 guys working on > it, it's hard to expect the world!
Well, for a while it was on the Ruby bandwagon :) But ultimately, what sets JRuby apart from languages like Scala, Clojure, Fan, and Groovy is that Ruby has been around for almost 17 years...longer than Java. It has its own community, a giant pool of existing libraries and applications, and it was not designed around the limitations of Java or the JVM. That means two things for us: if we can't be an excellent Ruby, we don't have much reason for existing; and there's a lot of challenges involved in being an excellent Ruby. But I think we've done a good job. To date, no other alternative Ruby implementation has production users. No other implementation runs Rails well enough to deploy real apps. And now that we've accomplished those goals, we'll turn a bit more attention to the remaining Java integration gaps. I think this fact bears repeating: people like JRuby because they like Ruby. If you don't like Ruby, there's plenty of other languages to choose from. JRuby is Ruby, and always will be. - Charlie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
