From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-01-22T01:35:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 2 Java ?

D De Villiers wrote:

> I notice that Ruby and Java is almost the same (both very OO etc !!) Is
> there any Ruby to Java translator ? I know there's a Ruby2C but what about
> Ruby2Java ?

While I don't think that Java and Ruby are anything alike, except that they 
are both computer programming languages, I've been interested in a Ruby 
compiler for a while.  I played with rb2c, but last I saw it was stuck back 
in Ruby 1.4 land.  I'm not sure that a compilation to Java would gain us 
much.  There have been rumors of a JIT Ruby VM, which would be a big win.  
Still, the ability to compile native apps would be very useful.

This, and a "standard" Ruby GUI API (!=Tk) are the only things limiting 
Ruby at the moment.

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