[Jython-dev] Hello from JRuby

[Charles O. N. <he...@he...>]

Hello fellow JVM language developers!

I am a co-lead of JRuby for many years, and have had some passing
connection with previous Jython maintainers: Tobias Ivarsson, Frank
Wierzbicki, and others. I am jumping on this list to ask how I might help
Jython in my capacity as a JVM language hacker. I am also attempting to
secure funding to keep JRuby development going, and I would like to see if
it's possible to do the same for Jython.

Despite the enormous resources that have been poured into alternative Ruby
and Python implementations over the past decade, I still believe that
"pure" JVM implementations are valuable to both the communities that use
these languages and to the JVM language community in general. JRuby, over
the past twenty years, has remained the only alternative Ruby
implementation to ever see significant production deployment. This is in
large part because we adhere to some level of JVM purity: we run on any
JVM, on any platform, without commercial entanglements. We also try to turn
the challenges of implementing a JVM dynamic language into opportunities
for OpenJDK to improve; InvokeDynamic, Panama, and Loom have in large part
been answers to those challenges. Jython has also proven itself, and even
though it has fallen behind standard Python and does not fully utilize
modern JVM features, it remains one of the great success stories of JVM
dynamic languages.

I believe Jython remains an important project. I'd like to do what I can to
help it move forward and become a viable target for modern Python
applications. Can we have a discussion about some shared future for our two
projects?

*Charles Oliver Nutter*
*Architect and Technologist*
Headius Enterprises
https://www.headius.com
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