Hi,
While SourceForge still is not working, I thought that maybe we could
discuss the JRuby future?
At some point in the future I guess it makes sense to try to compile Ruby
directly to Java byte code, in the manner of Jython. How far have thoughts
along these lines progressed?
It seems to me that a first step for this would be to have the current
parser output Java source code, which uses JRuby internals to create
Ruby-classes in the way the builtin classes are defined right now (like
RubyString and RubyTime, etc). It really doesn't seem that hard to output
that kind of code, or am I missing something deep here?
The next step is probably to provide custom class loaders which through
BCEL could dynamically load the new byte code into the Java system. It
seems that interoperability with the rest of Java should be easier and
faster this way, too.
Any thoughts?
/Ola
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