InfoQ: Towards a Universal VM

This InfoQ talk by Alex Buckley is a good description of why the JVM is quite a cool and interesting space to watch. One of the sort of pipe dreams i’ve had with JRuby is the day when i can use it to access Python’s NLP libraries (like NLTK) through Jython. Buckley’s talk indicates that this is very much an idea that they’d like to make possible if they can.