Mirah, an Expressive JVM Language

Much has been made of having more expressive languages for the JVM. The recent explosion of interest in alternative JVM languages has shown there’s a need for something better. But have Scala, Groovy, Fantom achieved this goal? We’ll look at Mirah, which attempts to implement Ruby’s apparent features directly atop JVM types and code. In each case there have been gains and losses. The Mirah Programming Language. Mirah (nee Duby) is a new experimental language born out of the JRuby project.