Sun Gets Ruby-fied

On the heels of last weekend's Ruby Conference in Denver (for a report, see Jack Woehr's blog), Sun Microsystems made a Ruby-related announcement of its own.

Led by Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the chief maintainers of JRuby, a 100% pure Java implementation of the Ruby language, Sun has released JRuby 0.9.1. Among the features of this release are:

• Overall performance is 50-60% faster than JRuby 0.9.0
• New interpreter design
• Refactoring of Method dispatch, code evaluation, and block dispatch code
• Parser performance enhancement
• Rewriting of Enumerable and StringScanner in Java
• New syntax for including Java classes into Ruby

In related news, Ola Bini has been inducted into JRuby as a core developer during this development cycle.
Details are available at Thomas Enebo's blog and Ola Bini's blog.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 11:50 AM  Permalink