[ruby-talk:03895] Re: JRuby?

Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> Hi
>
> Charles Hixson wrote:
>
> > "Conrad Schneiker" wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > That's only a good reason if you really need something like that. As Perl
> > > has shown, there is an enormous amount of work out there that doesn't (not
> > > to mention an enormous amount of work that would be better done in Ruby :-)
> > >
> > > But if you think you really need it, the first question should be, what do
> > > you want to accomplish?
> > > ...
> > >
> > A fair question.  Java has portable gui's.  Not perfect, but pretty
> > good.  Java is embeddable in web pages for "safely" ??downloading.  Java
> > has support for threading (ok, that's probably a pretty temporary
> > advantage).  Anything else?
>
> Well, I'm sure Java has all sorts of other goodies people would like to use.
> There is one big gotcha (not counting the underlying implementation and
> ...
> --
> Conrad Schneiker
> (This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)

I'm sure that there ARE all sorts of nice things.  But most of them are also
available in c.  What I was thinking of are features that Java has that an
application might *need*, and which weren't available in Ruby or c.  I.e., reasons to
pay the cost of having an interpreted interpreter (pretty high cost, but sometimes
necessary [just consider what microcode is, after all]).