From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-09-12T00:15:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun hires JRuby developers.

On 11/09/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> Another problem with that is that Sun should have done one thing - added
> native binary emit features to javac. The part of the tutorial that says
> you have to call "java some.silly.class.Name" to run an app is just
> laughable, and just emitting a simple binary that would use JNI to start
> a VM in the process and start the program wouldn't hurt. This is where
> .NET frankly obliterates it, none of its idioms look out of place.

On a related topic, I'd be content if the java executable could
actually recognise a jar file instead of requiring me to add the
'-jar' switch every time. Perhaps there's some very important reason
why it has to be this way - and I'm sure that someone will tell me if
that's so - but it just seems lazy and weak to me.

Paul.