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And the best thing about Mirah? It's written in JRuby.

Charles Nutter is insane. I've got to find a way to use this myself. Maybe for his encore he'll rewrite JRuby in Mirah, just to show Mirah is everything Java is and more. Or maybe the world will explode, who knows.



I'd actually love to get Mirah to a point where we could start to write (or rewrite) parts of JRuby in it. We're very close to that point; it can do almost everything we need for large subsections of code.


> Maybe for his encore he'll rewrite JRuby in Mirah

Actually, that was part of the motivation behind Mirah; Rubyists don't want to contribute to the parts of JRuby that are implemented in Java.


Well, what would you expect from people who title themselves 'rubyists'? As opposed to 'programmers', 'web developers' or anything meaningful at all.


Are you accusing Charles Nutter of being a nutter?


One amazing thing is the ability to call Mirah from JRuby.

See https://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/tree/master/plugins/Dub... for an example.




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