Comments on: Why Sun’s hiring of the JRuby developers isn’t good for Ruby http://blog.coryfoy.com/2006/09/why-suns-hiring-of-the-jruby-developers-isnt-good-for-ruby/ It's all about delivering Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cory Foy http://blog.coryfoy.com/2006/09/why-suns-hiring-of-the-jruby-developers-isnt-good-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-259 Cory Foy Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:13:00 +0000 http://blog.cornetdesign.com/?p=213#comment-259 Right. My point is that the focus has been about what a wonderful thing this is for Ruby. With Ruby on the CLR, and Ruby on Rails doing fine without a JVM or CLR on its own, they didn't need this. <br /><br />I think Java did, and does. <br /><br />But, super-kudos to the JRuby guys - I think they are very deserving of it. Right. My point is that the focus has been about what a wonderful thing this is for Ruby. With Ruby on the CLR, and Ruby on Rails doing fine without a JVM or CLR on its own, they didn’t need this.

I think Java did, and does.

But, super-kudos to the JRuby guys – I think they are very deserving of it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.coryfoy.com/2006/09/why-suns-hiring-of-the-jruby-developers-isnt-good-for-ruby/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Anonymous Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:02:00 +0000 http://blog.cornetdesign.com/?p=213#comment-260 This doesn't make it necessarily bad news for Ruby, either.<br />Sun probably has more of an interest in not fragmenting Ruby. The JRuby guys are probably not interested in that. <br />Besides, Sun may not even be in a position to "embrace and extend" in the Microsoft model.<br />I have been dying to have something like Groovy, but I need something mainstream, and "Ruby-like" won't cut it. I hope we get something that can gracefully give access to Java beans without compromising Ruby class hierarchy. This doesn’t make it necessarily bad news for Ruby, either.
Sun probably has more of an interest in not fragmenting Ruby. The JRuby guys are probably not interested in that.
Besides, Sun may not even be in a position to “embrace and extend” in the Microsoft model.
I have been dying to have something like Groovy, but I need something mainstream, and “Ruby-like” won’t cut it. I hope we get something that can gracefully give access to Java beans without compromising Ruby class hierarchy.

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