Charles Nutter on the possibility of a Rails support announcement in February 2007.
A prediction piece on the possibility of a Ruby backed coup d'état on the JVM and what that might mean to the pragmatic web developer.
"I'm getting more and more convinced that for the people that don't need the things Java infrastructure can give you, Rubinius is the most important project around, in Ruby-land. More than that, Rubinius is MRI done right."
"Maybe I’ll start to believe when they start promoting Ruby on Rails at JavaOne, as opposed to promoting JRuby on Rails at RailsConf."
"'Why are they doing all this?', that's a common concern with most Ruby folks ... A Sun that's heavily involved with Rails on the software side is a Sun that's much better positioned to sell loads of hardware ..."
Java becomes 100% more viable. So simple -- why didn't someone do this in the very beginning?
"And yes, I've seen the Microsoft news ... If Sun did something like this I'd resign."
I no longer think applet support should be dropped from all major browsers. I've got links for anyone who produces a Jython version.
"... the results for YARV/Rite are still streets ahead in terms of raw performance, and where I'm placing my bets for the next de facto Ruby interpreter."
The JRuby guys are real close to 100% passing Rails' unit tests. I think I'm going to sign up for PostgreSQL testing/hacking. What are you doing?
I take back everything bad I've ever said about Java Applets ;)