Looks like Nutter and team have achieved a pretty major milestone as far as JRuby and even Ruby is concerned. They have finished the first ever complete and “fully functional” Ruby 1.8 compiler. Making it even easier to beautify Java code everywhere with the programmatical sugar that is Ruby. I don’t do any Java code these days but I’m sure there are plenty of other devs out there who will be able to appreciate this more than I.