From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T06:35:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Groklaw says "Watch out, Ruby!"

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:57:45AM +0900, Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007, SonOfLilit wrote:
> > > With all due to respect to John Lam and the other IronRuby
> > > developers, is anyone taking IronRuby all that seriously?
> > 
> > It'll probably be the first "ruby" compiler to reach 1.0 and it allows
> > one to replace ActionScript with Ruby. Or so I hope.
> 
> You must mean "after jruby":
> 
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2007/06/12/JRuby+1.0+Released
> 
> or is jruby something fundamentally different than IronRuby in your
> mind?

The operative word is compiler. JRuby is a ruby runtime/interpreter, but it
does not compile source down to bytecode. IronRuby is a compiler to CLR
bytecode plus runtime libraries.

> Ben
--Greg