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by p_l 21 days ago
In my experience JRuby is way more viable than Jython ever was, one because Ruby native modules were more often thin wrappers, two because Ruby has sorta-standard in form of test suite (which AFAIK evolved from one that was necessary for ISO Ruby effort), and established somewhat case of using different implementations..

And C extensions never got as crazy as in python, and some major ones either made Java backends or switched from MRI embedding to FFI