Mirah: Taking Performance to the Next Level with Java's Ruby – O'Reilly Broadcast

Mirah’s challenge is to take Ruby, make minor modifications to the language, but not too many to change the ‘Rubyness’ of the language: the simplicity and usability of Ruby. In this post, I interview Charles Oliver Nutter one of the core commiters on JRuby and the founder of the Mirah project to put the project into perspective.
(Link: Mirah: Taking Performance to the Next Level with Java’s Ruby – O’Reilly Broadcast)