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Re:Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler by trevorhinesley on Monday December 30, 2024 @08:41PM (#42555535)
Which task? DragonRuby uses a custom mruby build to target cross platform game releases so their goal is to fit the Ruby lang spec, which Crystal does not adhere to.
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Re:Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler by mdaniel on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:52PM (#42556265)
> their goal is to fit the Ruby lang spec

I honestly thought that "ruby lang spec" was "whatever Matz ruby does." The ISO-IEC-30170 standard cited by mruby's readme seems to be laughably old but I can't obviously tell if mruby is a superset of the ISO or a subset. Their use of the phrase "part of the ISO standard" doesn't help

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Re:Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler by trevorhinesley on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:44PM (#42556473)
Matz is the creator and maintainer of Ruby, yes. mruby is a subset to my knowledge, and I don't think it's 100% parity with Ruby MRI (CRuby), which is basically what the lang spec is built around to my knowledge.
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Re:Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler by loktarogar on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:36PM (#42556434)
There's a full blown test suite for Ruby which the various implementations use: https://github.com/ruby/spec
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