Charles Nutter - Bringing Ruby to the JVM: Making the Impossible Possible

Over the past 18 years, the JRuby team has worked to bring Ruby to the JVM, defying impossible challenges and building the most successful alternative Ruby implementation in the world. Today, JRuby is actively developed and deployed at thousands of Ruby and Java shops around the world... but how did we get here? This talk provides a retrospective of the JRuby project, with examples of modern JRuby usage along the way.Category - Development, EcosystemTech - JRuby, Ruby, Java, Java Virtual Machine, Ruby on Rails, Swing, AndroidPresented on August 19, 2023 at the Carolina Code Conference in Greenville, SC.