A key Java platform developer is moving forward with an experimental programming language dubbed Mirah, which attempts to meld the niceties of Ruby with the heavy-duty performance of Java. Mirah is ...

The JRuby team has released JRuby 10, a major upgrade of the Ruby implementation on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), introducing compatibility with Ruby 3.4, full support for Java 21, and several ...

is now accommodating Ruby developers with the company's IntelliJ Idea Java IDE. A beta plug-in released Feb. 1 enables the product to serve as an IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications ...

The level of "abstraction" at the language level is a red herring when it comes to evaluating the performance characteristics of various runtime platforms. The more important factor is the level of ...