Java News Brief (JNB): JRuby
This month's Java News Brief (JNB) features Mark Volkmann introducing JRuby the up-and-coming dynamic language for the JVM.
Mark Volkmann: Ahh Ruby... If you didn't already have at least a small interest in Ruby you probably wouldn't be reading this article. What's so interesting about Ruby? Well the people in the know tell us that Ruby is special because ...
- it's object-oriented
- it's dynamically typed, supporting "duck typing"
- it has a compact, yet easy to read syntax
- it features blocks that are closures
- classes and objects are open, which means that methods can be added
- it's the language of the Rails web app. framework
Past Mark Volkmann JNB articles include
- Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG)
- Groovy - Scripting for Java (during the original Groovy boom)
- REST Architectural Style