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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. Re:Great News by chthon · · Score: 2, Funny

    A fast Ruby with a compiler is called Common Lisp.

  2. good thing, too by macadamia_harold · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sun has thrown some corporate weight behind Ruby

    Good thing, because that Oswald guy was starting to get on my nerves.

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