My comment was about the fact that I'd like to commit to it (for production work), but as a player not getting much love from devs, I cannot bring myself to do

My comment was about the fact that I'd like to commit to it (for production work), but as a player not getting much love from devs, I cannot bring myself to do that... yet. Fantom would bring _me_ most of jRuby's benefits, but with familiar syntax for non-Ruby devs, with the addition of optional JavaScript runtimes; thus providing one language for front and back ends. I also simply like the "feel" of Fantom. It kind of melds the best bits of Java, Ruby, Scala, and C#, I guess. And it rejects the bad. The fact that Stephen Colebourne likes it is a plus, as I trust his judgement in such matters. http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2010_the_next_big_jvm_lang_stephen_colebourne.html http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2010_the_next_... For ref, here's the Why Fantom? page http://fantom.org/doc/docIntro/WhyFantom.html http://fantom.org/doc/docIntro/WhyFantom.html Without using it in full fury, I can't argue a defensible "must try" validation, but there's more to like in Fantom, for me, than anything else I see at the moment.