From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T18:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Native gem roundup!

Ryan Davis wrote:
> Yeah. just depends on the impl's API into itself. ParseTree simply isn't 
> necessary on rubinius.

I'm still interested in producing a PT-compatible sexp from JRuby's AST, 
but it becomes harder the more we customize that AST (and the more we 
pre-compile code and dump the memory-expensive AST).

The other stuff, though, we definitely need. Profiling, debugging 
(including into Java code, if necessary), code coverage. It's 
"interesting" to be reinventing all these tools again atop the JVM, but 
it's also frustrating that they weren't created language-agnostic by JVM 
advocates in the beginning.

Myopic idiots.

- Charlie