From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T04:53:53+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby still alive?

Arthur wrote:

> That's too bad...I was hoping to see JRuby 1.0 released, so that the
> Ruby community would have a tool to rapidly prototype in Java, just as
> the Python people had JPython, now Jython, to develop Java
> applications.  If I recall, JPython was developed and put in place in
> a fairly short amount of time.

I think the basic JRuby interpreter was developed pretty quickly too.
But that was before my involvement, so I don't know the details.

> How usable is JRuby right now?  I had a look at the todo list, but am
> still not sure what major functionalities are missing.

It's already used to add scripting capabilities to Java programs. The
interpreter itself works fine.
The various parts of the Ruby APIs that are missing make it hard to run
existing Ruby programs on it. Right now I think threads are the biggest
problem. We can't implement Thread.critical, and haven't yet written
"native" Java implementations of Mutex etc.

/Anders

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