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		sandGorgon on Dec 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaGems: gemcutter for the JVM why is it in Ruby? As opposed to, say, Clojure or Scala ?

lucraft on Dec 20, 2009 | [–]

Why write it in Clojure, as opposed to, say, Scala or JRuby?

sailormoon on Dec 20, 2009 | [–]

Because the finished, mature, best in class ruby implementation is completely open source and is just sitting there for anyone to adopt, right now?

No need to re-invent the wheel. : )

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