JRuby “acquired” by Sun
Here’s some news on JRuby, a version of Ruby that runs on the JVM. Sun is hiring the developers that created JRuby to work on it full time.
As told by Charles Nutter, one of the JRuby developers:
The primary goal is to give JRuby the attention it really needs. The potential for Ruby on the JVM has not escaped notice at Sun, and so we’ll be focusing on making JRuby as complete, performant, and solid as possible…
And yes, JRuby will remain as open source as it is today. It just might start moving a bit faster (as if it weren’t moving fast already!)
This is yet another indicator of the growing influence of dynamic programming as talked about by Jim Moore at the last OJUG meeting. The JRuby team should be congratulated and commended for their good work and contribution to the Java and Ruby communities.
