20 Years of JRuby - Where We've Been and Where We're Going #JVMLS

Presented by *Charles Oliver Nutter* - Architect and Technologist (Headius Enterprises) during the *JVM* *Language* *Summit* (August 2024 - Santa Clara, CA).

_It has been 20 years since we started working on *JRuby*. During that time we've pushed the edges of the JVM more than any other language. In part due to our efforts and complaints, we have seen the JVM develop features for dynamic invocation, FFI, virtual threading and more that dovetail perfectly with Ruby's needs. This talk will be half retrospective and half looking forward to the future of alternative languages on the JVM._

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*Tags* #Java #JRuby #Ruby #OpenJDK

[bariole]

Mr. Charles, listening your talks and reading your essays was always a pleasure. I hope you and JRuby land on your feet and then carry on running.

[ticler]

JRuby... now that is a name i haven't heard in a long time

Not a Ruby guy but I've seen the madness of compact code on Coding Game Challenge rooms ^^ Hearing JRuby for the first time. If I don't have to deal with gems (souvenirs of sass back in 2014) I will be testing it this week. Nice talk. Thanks.

Oh maybe one question... Why people use JRuby? Especially when many other alternatives seems to be doing so better [so far] ?

[tmkmuse]

What about Jython? Isn't there a compatible version for Pthon 3?

[faucar]

wtf, why jruby is better than cruby ??? who on its sane judment wants a VM to compile a VM.