From: Raphael Bauduin <raphael.bauduin@...>
Date: 2004-03-04T19:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Is JRuby dead?

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Daniel V�lkerts wrote:
> 
>> Stefan Scholl wrote:
[snip]
> 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?

There's always the possibility JSR 223 will come to fruition one day....
There doesn't seem to be much activity though (http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223) 
and some fear it would be limited to web development.

Raph