Where does Ruby go from here?

Re:Where does Ruby go from here? by Pxtl on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:59AM (#8268986)

Now I'm starting to wonder if it would be possible to adapt V8 directly to use other dynamically-typed scripting language, like the Parrot project was intended to do. A language parser at the front, V8 in the middle, and the language's standard library in the back.

Node.js demonstrated the power of V8 with an alternate stdlib, perhaps an alternate language in front is possible too? Then again, probably V8 is at the very least heavily entangled with Javascript's type-system.

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Re:Where does Ruby go from here? by lobster_johnson on Thursday September 04, 2014 @01:07PM (#8269396)

Apple's FTL [1] is probably a better way to go. It's a high-level, general-purpose JIT for LLVM that is being used by Apple's own JavaScriptCore in WebKit. There was a discussion about it on HN a while back [2]

Last I checked, V8 was highly JS-specific, and you would have to rip out and replace large parts of it.

[1] https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/FTLJIT | https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-... | http://blog.llvm.org/2014/07/ftl-webkits-llvm-based-jit.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7740925

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