JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby

Google Tech Talks
February, 28 2008



Speaker: Ola Bini
I work for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I'm very interested in Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Ruby and the fuzzy lines between languages...

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[Kenneth Priisholm]

Dear Anonymous Coward.

No matter if you agree with Ola or not, he is very experienced in a vast variety of languages, and your post taken into account, my guess is, he's a lot brighter that you'd ever dream of becoming, regardless of your level of education.

Not going into a discussion here about pros and cons of Ruby, Python or JavaScript - all are great languages, but just in case you don't know, Ruby has been around since 1995, so cut the BS about 'almost a decade'.

[natlang1]

Almost a decade? Lisp is older than your dad. Every dynamically typed, garbage collected, object oriented language that supports higher order functions is arguably "based on" Lisp. That doesn't imply that we should never produce new languages with those features. It's all about the syntax.

[Prasanna Bala]

I have used JRuby .. Really cool...

[mcfiredrill]

Why did he say ActiveRecord doesn't scale?? :P

[石村 耕平]

greater good

[shakesvongreen]

good

[Luis Daniel Mesa Velasquez]

Objective-C interfacing has been deprecated

And that stops anyone?

[nickrohn93]

Just stop being one?

[nickrohn93]

I have no idea, lol?

[narutofan9999]

Amen on that. In fact, having to teach students to correctly use their computer (IDE, compiler, intepreter) first before even getting the chance to explain the basics of OO-Programming is really a hassle. Really, sometimes manual memory management can be helpful, but in most cases it just creates hardly readible code.

[codecaine]

lol