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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. Not exactly a good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Java is a marketing driven answer to a non existant technical problem, the best move would have been replacing Java with Ruby, but we cannot expect this from Sun. Heh!
    Now, if and when some good Ruby software will be written by these folks which will rely on a JVM to be run, and people starts adopting it, we'll know that Sun is screwing the Ruby community. Think about what Azureus would be if it was written in a decent programming language.

  2. Segway on rails! by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am bemused people who think Sun is relevant anymore. It's stock went through the floor, the barrier hit by most others during the dot-con bubble burst, and proceeded to the basement. It's server technology just isn't that interesting and Java has never been interesting except as a way to import enormous numbers of programmers from India using the capital Sun had acquired from its early success.

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