Sun Microsystems has hired the core developers of the JRuby project. Tim Bray: "Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, better known as The JRuby Guys, are joining Sun this month. Yes, I helped make this happen.. thank-yous are in order. Given that Sun is in the process of (appropriately) slashing some of its engineering groups, new hires are a little tricky. A lot of people helped, but I think the biggest contributions were from our Software CTO Bob Brewin and especially Rich Green, who approved the reqs about fifteen seconds after Bob and I raised the issue."