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Sun Backs Ruby by Hiring Main JRuby Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the feel-the-love dept.

pate writes "Sun has thrown some corporate weight behind Ruby, Rails, and dynamic languages by hiring the two main JRuby developers, Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo. Charles posted about jruby stepping into Sun on his blog, and Thomas posted his take too. Tim Bray, who started the ball rolling posted about the JRuby Love."

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  1. lies by oohshiny · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Java is an OPEN platform, based on well established standarts that are made public, royality-free. Everyone is free to make their own implementation of the JavaVM, this commitment to open standarts made efforts like IKVM, Kaffe, Classpath and ohters possible on the first place.

    That's a bunch of lies.

    Sun's Java specifications are available only under restrictive licenses and Sun has withdrawn them from standards bodies twice because Sun was unwilling to allow independent implementations. Go try to download the J2SE specifications from Sun's web site and look at the licenses they come under.

    IKVM, Kaffe, Classpath, and others have been laboriously reverse engineered from third party sources, and Sun has to this day refused to help in their creation. Sun's sources are completely useless to anybody working on independent Java implementations, because if they so much as look at them, Sun claims ownership of their work.

    Sun's lack of openness has cost a lot of people a lot of time and effort. Claiming that they are implementations of some "open" Java standard is adding insult to injury.

  2. C Devs are laughing their asses off right now... by MacDork · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    fast as Java

    Enough said... ;-)