Charles Nutter talks to RubyLearning Participants

In 2008 Charles Nutter talked to #JRuby course participants @headius

On the eve of the new JRuby Course announced by RubyLearning, Satish Talim of RubyLearning caught up with Charles Nutter , who was kind enough to spare time answering questions posed by the RubyLearning participants. Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996. He currently works full-time as a core developer on JRuby at Sun Microsystems. He led the open-source LiteStep project in the late 90s and started working on Ruby in the fall of 2004. Since then he has been a member of the JRuby team, helping to make it a true alternative Ruby platform. Charles blogs on Ruby and Java at headius.blogspot.com . Satish Talim>> Many of the RubyLearning course participants have a Java background and are learning Ruby. Why, according to you, must these participants also learn JRuby ? Charles Nutter>> Java is still a great language for building high performance libraries, system co...

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