JRuby guys join sun
I haven’t been to happy with the pace of Jython’s development and have been toying with the idea of moving towards JRuby for my scripting needs. Now this news makes it all the more easier. Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter, principal developers of JRuby have joined sun. Their job, to continue developing JRuby. Apparently Tim Bray had something to do with this.
On the side, there is an interesting parallel here. Microsoft hired Jim Huginin the guy behind IronPython and C# 2.0 got generators. Sun has just hired the JRuby guys and there is talk of introducing code blocks into Jdk7.
(via Tor Norbye’s Weblog)
September 13th, 2006 at 1:51 am
This is a good development. Sun needs to do this to keep the VM attractive.
And like always, they are acting very conservatively.
October 1st, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Actually, C# iterators and anonymous methods happended way before we hired JimHug. But you’re right that they all pointed in the same direction