Re: Sun to Support Ruby

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Fri, 08 Sep 2006 22:03:49 -0400

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mazurr@gmail.com wrote:

Was at Sun Tech Days in Seattle today for a bit. Rich Green announced
that Sun will be supporting Ruby and Ruby on Rails. They have hired on
a few Ruby gurus to help the cause along. The JVM will become the VM
(less the "J") and interpret Java and Ruby....and perhaps other
languages down the road.

They are currently working on support for Ruby in Netbeans, and (if I
heard correctly) plan for some form of Ruby support in Netbeans 5.5.

Sounds cool to me. Opinions?

The current trend is that all script languages
must be converted to run on both Java and .NET
platform. When it is Java they start with a J.
When it is .NET it start with Iron (for reasons
I do not know).

Options is always a good thing, so it is per
definition fine that JRuby exists.

I do not expect its usage to be that big.

RoR is so hot nowadays, so ofcourse SUN wants
to get some PR as well.

I am not particular impressed with RoR.

I do see a usage for script languages
like Python and Ruby.

Arne