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Re:Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go by lloeki on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:21AM (#15096978)
What? This is literally the first paragraph of README.md:

    Goby is an object-oriented interpreter language deeply inspired by Ruby as well as its
    core implementation by 100% pure Go. Moreover, it has standard libraries to several
    features such as the Plugin system. Note that we do not intend to reproduce whole of
    the honorable works of Ruby syntax/implementation/libraries.

    One of our goal is to provide web developers a sort of small and handy environment that
    mainly focusing on creating API servers or microservices. For this, Goby includes the
    following native features:

    - Tough thread/channel mechanism powered by Go's goroutine
    - Builtin high-performance HTTP server
    - Builtin database library (currently only support PostgreSQL adapter)
    - JSON support
    - Plugin system that can load existing Go packages dynamically (Only for Linux by now)
    - Accessing Go objects from Goby directly
This makes it quite a match to do containerized things as a single binary || self-deploying Go apps[0]

[0]: https://www.dotconferences.com/2016/10/kelsey-hightower-self...

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Re:Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go by camus2 on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:30AM (#15097411)
> This makes it quite a match to do containerized things as a single binary || self-deploying Go apps[0]

How? it is still an interpreted language so one has to write scripts. It no less complicated than installing and running Python or Ruby itself.

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Re:Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go by nawfalhasan on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:03AM (#15097785)
>One of our goal is to provide web developers a sort of small and handy environment that mainly focusing on creating API servers or microservices

How does it explain the motivation behind creating another language? What were the reasons the developer/team behind goby thought existing languages/tools didnt help? My questions are also about how different goby vs ruby is, or goby vs go. I also question if the language is dynamically or statically typed, etc which are bare minimum I expect in introduction.

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Re:Goby: A new Ruby-inspired language written in Go by st0012 on Friday August 25, 2017 @09:09PM (#15103509)
If you ask me why I started this project at first place, I'd say it's just for fun and practicing.

And we know that Goby is not special enough by giving green thread or channel. So currently our main goal is to let users use Go's packages and manipulate Go objects directly in Goby.

And we already made some progress, please check out this: https://goby-lang.gitbooks.io/goby/content/plugin-system.htm...

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