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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by sah on Monday May 05, 2008 @04:07PM (#181791)
This is neat. A complete Ruby-to-pyc compiler might be a faster implementation of Ruby than the original one.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by bprater on Monday May 05, 2008 @05:02PM (#181844)
That _why_the_lucky_ guy sure is a bright one.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by hwork on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @01:55AM (#182225)
why_ is really one of those dudes who needs to be funded by the community to work full-time on his awesome, wild projects. He is le-git.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by fdb on Monday May 05, 2008 @03:56PM (#181771)
Isn't this what Parrot (http://www.parrotcode.org/) set out to do? Any idea how that project is coming along?
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by suboptimal on Monday May 05, 2008 @05:16PM (#181861)
He's resting.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by jrockway on Monday May 05, 2008 @07:59PM (#182015)
Uh, no. It's actively developed (100s of commits per week) and is quite close to a 1.0 release.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by DaniFong on Monday May 05, 2008 @07:06PM (#181971)
Pining for the fjords?
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by jmtulloss on Monday May 05, 2008 @05:21PM (#181869)
Python and Ruby are not so different that I really see the purpose of this. Compiling Python and/or Ruby to the Java or .NET runtime has clear benefits, but what is the benefit of this?
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by mlinsey on Monday May 05, 2008 @06:45PM (#181955)
The main benefit, aside from that it's sort of cool, is that you would be able to write for Google App Engine in Ruby. Personally, I think that the similarities between Python and Ruby (particularly their bytecode similarities) makes Ruby the most obvious language to be added to GAE next; but there isn't anything quite as easy as GAE for getting your Ruby app off the ground right now.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by troystribling on Monday May 05, 2008 @07:13PM (#181979)
Heroku is pretty close http://heroku.com/. I think it is funded by YC.
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Re:Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strict... by atog on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @04:47AM (#182304)
I'm a fan!
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