Is development of JRuby still active? Looking at
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ it seems that there hasn’t been a release
since 10/27/2002.
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Mark Volkmann wrote:
Is development of JRuby still active? Looking at
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ it seems that there hasn’t been a
release since 10/27/2002.
We’ve done some work since then that’s in the CVS only. But none of us
major contributors have had much time for JRuby the last few months, so
things are moving very slowly.
But I do have the time to accept patches to JRuby, so just keep 'em
coming!
/Anders
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JRuby still alive?Actually, Sun Microsystems has taken over JRuby as part of
a stated plan to adopt Ruby in place of Java over the next year.
Gosling gave an inteview to InfoWorld recently where he finally admitted
Ruby was the superior language.
Expect an RVM and R2EE in about 6-to-12 months.
Have a nice first day of April,
James Britt
www.jamesbritt.com
www.ruby-doc.org
www.rubyyaml.com
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Subject: JRuby still alive?
Is development of JRuby still active? Looking at
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/ it seems that there hasn’t been a release
since 10/27/2002.
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james_b@neurogami.com wrote:
Actually, Sun Microsystems has taken over JRuby as part of a stated plan
to adopt Ruby in place of Java over the next year.
This has led to a refocusing of efforts by the RJava (formely JRuby)
team, to instead work towards a Java interpreter written in Ruby.
Anders Bengtsson ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se wrote in message news:1049228859.1137.42.camel@spinoza…
Mark Volkmann wrote:
Is development of JRuby still active?
We’ve done some work since then that’s in the CVS only. But none of us
major contributors have had much time for JRuby the last few months, so
things are moving very slowly.
That’s too bad…I was hoping to see JRuby 1.0 released, so that the
Ruby community would have a tool to rapidly prototype in Java, just as
the Python people had JPython, now Jython, to develop Java
applications. If I recall, JPython was developed and put in place in
a fairly short amount of time.
How usable is JRuby right now? I had a look at the todo list, but am
still not sure what major functionalities are missing.
Arthur
Lyle Johnson lyle@users.sourceforge.net writes:
This has led to a refocusing of efforts by the RJava (formely JRuby)
team, to instead work towards a Java interpreter written in Ruby.
It’s after 12 o’clock from where I’m posting, so allow me to point out rava
(http://www.namikilab.tuat.ac.jp/~sasada/prog/rava.html) which happens
to be a Java interpreter written in Ruby.
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I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw
itself.
- Linus Torvalds
Arthur wrote:
That’s too bad…I was hoping to see JRuby 1.0 released, so that the
Ruby community would have a tool to rapidly prototype in Java, just as
the Python people had JPython, now Jython, to develop Java
applications. If I recall, JPython was developed and put in place in
a fairly short amount of time.
I think the basic JRuby interpreter was developed pretty quickly too.
But that was before my involvement, so I don’t know the details.
How usable is JRuby right now? I had a look at the todo list, but am
still not sure what major functionalities are missing.
It’s already used to add scripting capabilities to Java programs. The
interpreter itself works fine.
The various parts of the Ruby APIs that are missing make it hard to run
existing Ruby programs on it. Right now I think threads are the biggest
problem. We can’t implement Thread.critical, and haven’t yet written
“native” Java implementations of Mutex etc.
/Anders
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