28Sep/080
Why JRuby?
Java is now everywhere. But not everyone knows that Java is not only a language but also a virtual machine. You can create a compiler for virtually any programming language to compile it to java bytecode. Actually a few projects do that! There is Jython for Python and JRuby for ruby.
But why bother? I've been asking myself exactly the same question. Why bother with running any language under java VM when it has an interpreter of its own. Andreas gives a nice overview of the candy stuff you will get from JRuby in his blog post "Why I'm starting to like JRuby even though I dislike Java"
