JRubyWhat is JRuby?
JRuby is the effort to recreate the Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) interpreter in Java. The Java version is tightly integrated with Java to allow both to script any Java class and to embed the interpreter into any Java application. See the docs directory for more information.
JRuby is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
JRuby Pros & Cons
Pros of JRuby
- ✓Java
- ✓Faster than Ruby
- ✓JVM
- ✓Threads
- ✓Built-in Testing
- ✓Deploy as executable jay
- ✓Garbage collection built-in
- ✓Open source
- ✓Supports native Ruby gems out the box
- ✓Great community
Cons of JRuby
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JRuby Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to JRuby?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
