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Someone pointed out to me the other day that the Alioth "Compuer Language Benchmarks Game" (as they call it now) had started to in...

Can it be true? Of course it can! Graeme Rocher blogs about a new feature in upcoming Groovy 1.1 beta 3: support for Ruby-style "method...

John Rose , lead of the "invokedynamic" effort ( Java Specification Request 292 ), has posted some exciting articles about the fut...

Compilers are hard. But not so hard as people would have you believe. I've committed an update that installs a CallAdapter for every com...

One of the most attractive aspects of Ruby is the fact that it has relatively few sacred keywords. In most cases, things you'd expect to...

In JRuby, we have a number of things we "decorate" the Java stack with for Ruby execution purposes. Put simply, we pass a bunch of...

I must apologize to my readers. I have been remiss in my blogging duties. I will be posting updates on the various events of the past month ...

Rumors of my demise were greatly exaggerated! I've been mostly MIA the past couple weeks, largely due to the Ruby Kaigi and related even...

We have finally released JRuby 1.0 , based on the last release candidate, RC3. And what more is there to say? Not really a whole lot...It...

I'm not up for creative titles tonight. Hopefully you'll see this in your feed reader and click for a second opinion. Granted, I agr...

Tom posted the announcements already, but JRuby 1.0.0RC3 is out in the wild! This release is our most important yet, because we intend for ...

One thing often touted as a missing feature in Ruby is the lack of a constructor form that initializes fields. A few other languages have th...

I love how meta-programmable Ruby is. JRuby doesn't support annotations because Ruby doesn't support annotations. So what! We can ex...

I've started a Google Group for all those interested in the future of alternative languages (i.e. not Java) on the JVM. A number of you ...

I've been invited to this year's Foo Camp . Since it sounds like a great time and there's a bunch of other folks going I'd l...

We're within weeks of a final JRuby 1.0. We've pared down the bugs that we think we can or must fix for 1.0 and this email is a su...

I just came across this amusing entry from an old, now-defunct blog of mine on LiveJournal. The last line pretty much says it all. I must ha...

Today Tom and I met with fellow language implementers Oti Humbel, Charlie Groves, and Tobias Ivarsson to start discussions about JSR-292 (in...

Big news today from ThoughtWorks Studios! Their collaborative development project management solution Mingle (think SourceForge, but pretty...

Yes, I've managed to secure a small order of JRuby t-shirts for giveaway at JavaOne and RailsConf. And they're pretty sweet, have a ...