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SE-Radio-Episode-266:-Charles-Nutter-on-the-JVM-as-a-Language-Platform

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Is JRuby Written in Java?

The majority of JRuby is written in Java. The core classes like string and hash and array are mostly written in Java, but more and more we've been adding as new features come along for Ruby. We often will add them as a Ruby implementation to try and host some of JRuby's implementation in Ruby itself.

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