From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists Date: 2007-03-29T19:08:15+09:00 Subject: Re: On Enterprise Ruby On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > S. Robert James wrote: >> Perhaps JRuby will address these and library issues, but I think JRuby >> is targeted more towards using Ruby to talk to Java, not enhancing >> Ruby in its own right. Perhaps over time, as more people adopt Ruby, >> all of these issues will be addressed more... > > Au contraire...JRuby aims to be the best Ruby possible on the JVM. If that > ultimately means we solve some issues (threading, performance, unicode, > scaling) before/better than the C implementation, so be it. But it will still > be Ruby, and we intend to run all the same apps unmodified (or as close to > unmodified as possible). I think Robert was hinting toward the idea that once JRuby is "usable" (however that might be defined) it will have access to Java's mature libraries, instead of using Ruby's XML, SOAP, ... (others?), which are not as far as Java's. *t -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek http://sourcepole.com - Linux & Open Source Solutions -----------------------------------------------------------