Kevin J. Jones

JRuby & Sun

Posted in Dynamic Languages by abahtowt on September 12, 2006

Tim Bray tells some of the story on the hiring the JRuby guys, but I don’t really get it. This feels like damage limitation for the Java crowd that does nothing to help bring the PHP, Perl & Python developers into the fold. Worse still, it may alienate the Groovy and Ruby developers. Is it really just product positioning being wrapped in the clothes of encouraging diversity, I hope not but am guessing it is.