From: "Daniel Völkerts" <dvoelkerts@...>
Date: 2004-03-04T18:59:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Is JRuby dead?

Hal Fulton wrote:

> JRuby has always seemed like an interesting idea to me. But isn't it
> true that this is an actual *different port* of Ruby, to the Java
> "platform"?
> 
> For example, we lose the ability to use the existing C extensions,
> do we not?

Yes. But for my application I'm searching a extension to extend the 
functionality by accessing Java libaries I already had. So I need only a 
few typically ruby extensions and I'm able to dispense with C extensions.

But you're right in any other case there is no sence for a portage.
I'm only searching of a emeddable scripting language whichs flavor I like ;)

Bye & TIA

Daniel