{"id":349,"date":"2006-09-07T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=349"},"modified":"2006-09-07T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T00:00:24","slug":"el-rey-de-caf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/09\/07\/el-rey-de-caf\/","title":{"rendered":"El Rey de Café"},"content":{"rendered":"

As tbray mentioned, Sun hired “The JRuby Guys” today<\/a> (rather, announced that they had).<\/p>\n

We were discussing the announcement in #redmonk<\/a> (you were there, right? If not, check it out), and most folks seemed quite happy with it.<\/p>\n

I, of course, think it’s great.<\/p>\n

Personally, it gives me a thrill to when coders who’ve worked passionately on a project get a patron or otherwise “win.”<\/p>\n

Professionally, I’m on record as saying that JEE (and, really, all of Java) needs to become the<\/i> multi-language platform for long-term survival<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nAbstracting away the OS was the early dream, but the missing feature to all of that was limiting the platform to Java only. The dynamic language JSRs are key to realizing this broader platform play. As such, the next bet for Java EE’s long-term survival is for the Java EE community to make running dynamic languages and frameworks like PHP, Rails, JavaScript, and python work as well, and even better, in Java EE as they do in Linux.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, while it’s too soon to read in that<\/i> much into the hire of two dudes — Sun still hasn’t monetized Roller despite frequent prodding from us, esp. from James<\/a> — it’s certainly a welcomed milestone.<\/p>\n

Questions, etc.<\/h2>\n

Several things to think about are:<\/p>\n