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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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Ruby 2.2 - Is the JVM a Platform Agnostic?

The fact that the JVM is kind of platform agnostic is a mixed blessing. There are features that people will expect to behave on a platform specific basis. The things that really touch the system have been wrapped up so neatly on the JVM, sometimes we can't get the features we need. Even just down to the language level, there's features in Ruby and many other dynamic languages like closures that don't have a good analog on the J VM.

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