Charles Nutter, Sun Microsystems
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Charles Oliver Nutter is co-lead of the JRuby project, an implementation of Ruby 1.8 for the Java platform. He joined Sun Microsystems in September 2006 to work full-time on the project, coming from a Java EE architect position at a government services consulting company.
Charles has been primarily a Java developer for the past decade, with many other languages and technologies thrown in, but he now works to make Ruby and other dynamic languages first-class citizens in the Java world. He believes all developers would benefit from studying a dynamic language, and feels Ruby is the by far the best one to learn.
Charles plans to continue improving JRuby and to help advance support for alternative languages on the JVM. Charles blogs on Ruby and JRuby at headius.blogspot.com.