Charles Oliver Nutter is one of the key people working on JRuby. He announced that he has been hired by Sun to work on JRuby fulltime. I think this is fantastic news. I’m very intrigued by the possibilities of creating harmony between Ruby and Java. We use a healthy mix of J2EE and Ruby on Rails at Jobster. So far, we haven’t had the need to cross boundaries between Ruby and Java but I can see that in our future.
Beyond the vote of confidence in JRuby, I think this is a good move for Sun. One of the best features about the Microsoft .Net platform is the language independence. Sun putting this into Java 6 is an “about time” move. It is a good evolution of the JVM. I think it also shows that Sun is both serious about the scripting interface and scared to death of Ruby on Rails eating into J2EE. I know I would be if I were them.
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