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Re:HippyVM by rebelidealist on Friday June 06, 2014 @08:33PM (#7860868)
Can you or someone make one for Ruby please?
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Re:HippyVM by MrHamdulay on Friday June 06, 2014 @08:50PM (#7860898)
They are, see Topaz http://topaz.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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Re:HippyVM by VeejayRampay on Friday June 06, 2014 @09:28PM (#7860955)
"Most of the standard library is missing."

So it'll take some time I guess. Still nice to see people trying, Ruby is a great language but it needs as much love as possible.

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Re:HippyVM by ksec on Friday June 06, 2014 @09:56PM (#7861011)
Or precisely, its VM needs as much love as possible.
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Re:HippyVM by VeejayRampay on Saturday June 07, 2014 @10:03AM (#7862119)
Or even more precisely, the VM of its main (and de facto default) implementation needs love. Rubinius and JRuby are really VASTLY superior implementations but well, there's no specification so 50% of development time is spent in asinine catch up with an underspecified "standard" (MRI that is).

Really sad state of affairs and the #1 reason why Ruby isn't faster and more feature-packed.

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Re:HippyVM by pjmlp on Saturday June 07, 2014 @12:59AM (#7861337)
There are already three at least

http://www.rubymotion.com/

http://jruby.org/

http://crystal-lang.org/ (not quite Ruby)

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