Re: [Jython-users] In Jython2.3 jythonc will go away, so what about applets or stand alone apps

[Michael M. <mm...@gm...>]

I've given this some thought and I think the reason there is so much 
perceived Sun support for JRuby is because of these reasons:

1. For the longest time Rails was (and is still) stealing Java 
programmers so having Ruby work with Java seemed a smart thing to support.
2. JRuby seemed to have a pretty active development team (before Sun's 
help) and..
3. Jython development, for the longest time, seemed very stagnant, if 
not dead..

However in the past 18 months things have changed.. Jython development 
is back with a vengeance... Python from a pure scripting  AND  as web 
development platform is stronger than ever.. I think Sun has 'seen the 
light' and they are supporting Jython with full force and vigor.

As for NetBeans.. I think Sun saw that Eclipse has PyDev so they figured 
if they built Ruby into NetBeans they could do something cool that 
Eclipse doesn't really cover that well. 
> Note:  I did notice how well integrated JRuby is with NetBeans, which makes 
> me think that Roger may be correct about Sun's aversion to Python.  Why this 
> is, I have no idea - it's a great language.
>