From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T06:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun hires JRuby developers.

On 9/9/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's hope that the corporate environment really IS different now.

I like to think that open source may be the missing part of the
equations in the examples you cited. With Ruby (and to a lesser extent
with JRuby) there's already an existing, vibrant community...many of
whom have expressed great interest in having a JVM-based option for
deploying Ruby applications. In those other cases, it could be argued
that while the ideas were solid they were too far ahead of their
time...solutions looking for a problem. Perhaps this time we really
have the critical mass to make something great happen. Can you imagine
what it would be like if in five years 90% of developers are writing
in languages like Ruby across *all* the major platforms? Do you know
how many therapists and tech schools we'll put out of business? It
boggles the mind.

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