From: Bob X <bobx@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T06:19:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on ARTIMA

From the talkback:

"Ruby is over 10 years old, very popular in Japan, gaining popularity in
other parts of the world, have thousands of users and hundreds of hackers.
However, the implementation (Ruby has only 1 currently, written in C) is
pretty weak. It's slow, does not support native threads, does not do JIT
compilation (not even bytecode), needs a better GC, etc. It is especially so
if we compare it with Java and Smalltalk, who have gotten real good
implementations (JIT compilers, fast GC, threads, etc) nowadays."

Comments?