JRuby now part of Sun

[Jordan]

The two primary developers of JRuby are now being hired by Sun Microsystems. They will be hired later this month.

It's going to be a big news day for JRuby

The two core JRuby developers, myself and Thomas Enebo, will become employees at Sun Microsystems this month. Our charge? You guessed it...we're being hired to work on JRuby full-time.

Perhaps some of you may have seen this one coming. For others, it may be a pleasant surprise.

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. We'll then proceed on to help build out broader tool support for Ruby, answering calls by many in the industry for a "better" or "smarter" Ruby development experience. I'm also making it a personal priority to continue growing the JRuby community, foster greater cooperation between the Java and Ruby worlds, and work toward a "whole-platform" Ruby-on-JVM strategy for Sun.

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[DevilsCharm]

I never understood what Ruby was. I always thought of it as a very unpopular language but lots of people use it.

[Lop]

I've never heard of JRuby before.... I'm still uncertain on what Ruby actually is.