Simon Willison’s Weblog

Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls. Charles Nutter’s detailed and opinionated overview of the state of twelve different Ruby implementations (six of which are covered in detail).

# 27th April 2008, 2:18 pm / charles-nutter, ironruby, jruby, macruby, rubinius, ruby

The Rubinius Sprint. Sun are throwing a ton of resources at Ruby, because as Tim Bray says, “it’s not fast enough”. Imagine where they’d be if they’d invested this kind of support in Jython five years ago...

# 21st September 2007, 11:32 pm / java, jython, open-source, python, rubinius, ruby, sourgrapes, sun, tim-bray