Ruby luster readied for Java
Ruby luster readied for Java | InfoWorld | News | 2007-03-22 | By Paul Krill
JRuby developers this month also plan to round out features of JRuby, such as native Unicode support and Java integration. The JIT (just in time) compiler will be enabled by default this month. April plans call for deciding on the final features for the 1.0 release as well as a major bug-hunting push.
Future directions for JRuby include Ruby 2.0 bytecode support and leveraging the HotSpot JVM to speed execution.
A symposium attendee said that while he is not against JRuby, he did not see it is as being enterprise-ready yet. JRuby currently is at the level of where Java was in 1995 or 1996, said the attendee, Martin Franklin, an architect at Intuit who said he worked on the Java project at Sun when it was first released in 2005.
