Thanks for the great replies...I'm pondering your answers, but would like a
little clarity on this:
> > After the core team, JRuby classes would be VERY VERY tricky to
> > un-obfuscate so JRuby could be a very good way to achieve Ruby
> > obfuscation even if nobody should do closed source anymore (well at
>
> > least that would be cool).
>
> I'd say impossible. It can't be decompiled into Java code, because it
> does a lot of VM-level things that don't have equivalents in Java. You
> could dump the bytecode, but then you'd just have a bunch of bytecode
> doing all the tricks necessary to make Ruby work. Algorithms would be
> really possible to pull out of that mess. Plus most people can't read
> bytecode.
Perhaps my email got snipped, but I'm not certain what "After the core team"
means. Are you saying after the core team gets full compilation working? Is
full compilation to bytecode an accomplish-able goal? And how soon do you feel
it will be accomplished?
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