Submission + - Why I Don't Use The JVM (yakkstr.com)
jaydonnell writes: "The programming world has been abuzz about the JVM and all these new JVM languages the past few years. I'm a long time rubyist and a lisp weenie, and two of the most popular alternative JVM languages are JRuby and Clojure (a lisp). They are both great langauges, I've done large projects in both, and I really want to love them. But I can't, and it's not their fault, it's the JVM."