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One of my great hopes for the future of Ruby is to see it fully supported on the JVM and .NET CLR runtime platforms. Once that happens I will be able to leverage my Ruby DSL-authoring skills beyond the Ruby interpreter. I was thinking about the implications, asking myself, what happens when I can run a Rails application just as easily on a JVM or .NET as I can today on the Ruby interpreter. At least one of the implications is that for the first time (that I can think of) you will be able to write full-stack application frameworks that are platform agnostic.

By the way, I don't think there is wide awareness that the Ruby CLR implementation is moving along very quickly and as far as I can tell, it might be ready for wide usage before JRuby (dammit Sun!). Check out this thrown-together DSL for writing equations as proof of what I'm talking about. The author marries a Ruby DSL with rich graphics in Avalon, with cool results.