Michael Neumann
1/22/2007 2:57:00 PM
Vinod Kone wrote:
> hi,
>
> am a newbie to ruby and was wondering whether there is any ruby2java or
> java2ruby converter? we are planning to compare both the languages based
> on some benchmarks..so thought a converter would come in handy. any
> suggestions?
I have implemented a rudimentary Ruby to Javascript converter. So I don't
think it should be much harder to do the same with Java. Of course as Java is
static typed, one would need to pass Objects everywhere and do runtime
type-casting all the time, unless one implements some kind of type inference
for Ruby (which I think is possible and usable is some situations). So in the
end, I don't think it would be much faster than Ruby, maybe even slower.
Well, it would probably be faster than JRuby but much less flexible (as I'm
talking only about a subset of Ruby, without the whole dynamism Ruby provides
you with).
Regards,
Michael