[engineerDave]

As a ruby dev this completely makes sense to me based on the Java developers I have worked with. I'm willing to bet he also never even considered jRuby as a happy compromise, also basing this on my experiences with the Java developers I have worked with

[irvingprime]

I've also noticed that most Java devs dislike Ruby just as much as I (a ruby dev) dislike Java. But the guy who made this decision had never done development in Ruby, Java, or anything else. He was a former db administrator who went into management.