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JRuby, Duby, and Surinx: Building a Better Ruby

Presented by Charles Nutter on Dec 10, 2009 Length 00:27:46     Download: MP3
Sections
Development
Topics
Language ,
Ruby ,
Java
Tags
Surinx ,
JVM Language Summit ,
JRuby ,
Duby
 

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Summary
In this presentation, Charles Nutter discusses JRuby, invokedynamic, JRuby performance, Duby, the motivation behind creating Duby, Duby syntax, future plans for Duby, Surinx, the motivation behind creating Surinx, and how Duby and Surinx are helping JRuby.

Bio
Charles Oliver Nutter is a JRuby developer and JVM advocate, working to further language development on the Java platform. Charles has also experimented with designs for other Ruby-like languages that scratch itches standard Ruby does not. Charles blogs at blog.headius.com.

About the conference
The 2009 JVM Language Summit is an open technical collaboration among language designers, compiler writers, tool builders, runtime engineers, and VM architects. The talks inform the audience, in detail, about the state of the art of language design and implementation on the JVM, and the present and future capabilities of the JVM itself.

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