Charles Nutter: JRuby in 2010: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
Who: Charles Nutter, Engineyard
When: March 23, 2010
JRuby has changed a lot in the past year. With a new focus on Java integration, the entire world of Java libraries has opened up to Rubyists. The night will include a presentation by Charles Nutter followed by discussion about all things JRuby, such as:
- invokedynamic and method combinators
- JRuby on the desktop
- challenges of implementing a dynamic language on the JVM
- what JRuby can do to help enterprise IT and existing J2EE applications
- JRuby on Android
- whatever else the audience wants to hear about
About the speaker
Charles Oliver Nutter has spent the past 4 years making JRuby into an oustanding Ruby implementation. Now he's working to make JRuby a first-class JVM language, with all the Java integration features users expect. Charles blogs at blog.headius.com.