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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. Support for Dynamic languages by EqualSlash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Long ago, Microsoft hired Jython creator Jim Hugunin to work on IronPython. The aim is to make dynamic languages like python work better in .NET platform. Looks like Sun doesn't want to lose out in the race in supporting dynamic languages.

    1. Re:Support for Dynamic languages by TheRaven64 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Smalltalk, the archetypal dynamic language, already runs quite happily on top of the JVM. Sun doesn't need better technology, they need better marketing. Last time I checked, there were more languages supported by the JVM than the .NET CLR, but Sun only ever talk about Java while Microsoft talk about everything. This is a PR move to let the world know that the JVM is not just for Java.

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  2. Re:Great News by masklinn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two seconds of Googling could have told you that the JVM has supported more languages than .net for a long time.

    I may be overreaching here, but I think that part of his point was that Sun never ever officially endorsed any language but Java on the Java platform. Only now that MS has started championing a pretty much official IronPython effort has Sun discovered dynamic languages, and started working towards making the JVM more dynamic-languages friendly.

    Which is a damn shame, because they had Jython years ago, which they could easily have supported at almost no cost, and they let the project die on it's own.

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  3. after letting Jython languish by hashmap · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I gots no love for Sun ... after all Jython been out for half a decade, and Sun has shown little to no interest in it ... just imagine how much better it would be if they had the foresight to support it and improve its performance

    As far as I'm concenrned Sun is playing catch-up with Microsoft, and this is no more than a half assed response to MS releasing IronPython