Not terribly long ago, it was not at all uncommon for developers to take a stand on their programming language of choice and argue why it was the best suited for whatever task.
Some of that still exists, but the lines are beginning to blur. Thanks to projects like IronRuby or IronPython, we’re now implementing our languages on top of other frameworks and virtual machines.
JRuby is another option that is the Ruby language implemented in 100% Java.
The JRuby Team just released the second release candidate of the next version of the project.
This particular release includes the following fixes:
- Large number of 1.9 compatibility issues addressed
- Encoding issues (especially involving Regexp)
- Fiddle implementation
- non-ASCII identifiers
- irb (1.8.7, 1.9.2) and command prompt added to Windows installer
- Compiler handles all 1.9 syntax now
- Fixes for new backtrace accuracy, reliability
- Removed all GPL or LGPL-only dependencies
- Updated to RubyGems 1.5.0
If you’re a Java developer looking to pick up another language, this may be worth following.
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