I am not a Ruby advocate. I use Java for what I think are good reasons. But for anybody that thinks Ruby is just geeks in a basement and not "mainstream" they should know that Sun is backing Ruby:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000091
More generally Sun is putting work into the integration of dynamically typed languages into the Java environment. It would seem than Ruby is their first choice. With Java becoming genuinely open source, we may see some good things happen here.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000091
More generally Sun is putting work into the integration of dynamically typed languages into the Java environment. It would seem than Ruby is their first choice. With Java becoming genuinely open source, we may see some good things happen here.