From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-07-04T07:03:26+09:00
Subject: Re: performance questions

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Peter Booth<pbooth@nocoincidences.com> wrote:
> There are many post 1.8.6 Ruby runtimes that offer significant performance
> gains. For me, as someone who chooses to work on performance focused
> projects, I think that the JRuby is most compelling, because of the amazing
> toolset it implicitly brings with it. Profilers like YourKit, Jxinsight and
> Wily are light-years ahead of anything available to us on native Ruby 1.8.6
> or any other commercial software platform.

The toolset is absolutely fantastic on the Java platform, if you can
stomach a lot of the Java nonsense. Over the next year, we're looking
to really "bring JRuby to the Java world" in a serious way. We want to
bring the type systems closer together, make it possible to integrate
with all frameworks on the JVM and all the usual "Java ways" of doing
things with annotations, serialization, and so on, and start solving
the problems of the Java platform in a Ruby way. You might consider it
us doing for the Java world what MacRuby is doing for ObjC/Cocoa, and
hopefully unifying the two worlds as well as Laurent has done with
MacRuby.

So if you've ever been interested in the tooling and library landscape
of the Java world but really want to use Ruby with all of it, we're
really love to get your help and/or input. There's so much out there
and such a gigantic pool of developers and development opportunities,
we could grow the Ruby community tremendously by taking the JVM world
over. :)

- Charlie