Why do you say that? I believe we have done more to advance Ruby than any other implementation. We work with MRI because we wish to remain cooperative members of the Ruby community.
- Charlie (mobile)
> JRuby master, which will becoming JRuby 9000, supports *only*
> 2.1-compatibility.
Tom, Charlie -Do you mean “only 2.1”, do you mean “not 2.0”, “not 1.9”, or both? Ruby 2.x has been very slow to be adopted. In my informal surveys at user group meetings, I’ve found that < 10% of Ruby developers are using 2.x. I haven’t looked very much into 2.x myself yet. Is it totally backward compatible with 1.9?
When 1.8 was still in use in some places, I found JRuby a really convenient tool for checking 1.8 compatibility. It would be handy to do the same with 1.9. But I do realize that focusing on a single version can simplify implementation, and that that’s really important.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Keith Bennett <keithr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom, Charlie -Do you mean “only 2.1”, do you mean “not 2.0”, “not 1.9”, or both? Ruby 2.x has been very slow to be adopted. In my informal surveys at user group meetings, I’ve found that < 10% of Ruby developers are using 2.x. I haven’t looked very much into 2.x myself yet. Is it totally backward compatible with 1.9?
We have been trying much harder to apply all 1.9+ fixes to both 1.7 branch and master.