On Jan 25, 2008 8:48 AM, Softmind Technology <softmindtechnology / gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been reading lots of headings about the New Rubinius Project and > therefore decided to know more from the website. I am very badly placed to answer but it is night time over there so I will take advantage of that ;) > > Unfortunately from the main Rubinius website and reading few blogs here > and there i could not understand the exact importance of Rubinius. I feel that their Website is not yet up with the rest of the standards they are setting, but.... > The > only thing i could gather was its a VM written in Ruby, using the idea > of Small Talk 80. I also failed to understand, whether this a hype or an > actual advantage flowing to us. It is an enormous advantage, the JRuby guys claim that Java has the best VM the best GC etc. etc. and that therefore it is a brilliant idea to use them, that is indeed true, however having only 1 is never a good idea. I have had the feeling that the idea of the Smalltalk VM suits a dynamic language better and have posted that a long time ago, that was how I was pointed to Rubinius... (but I fail to have the time and qualification to participate). > > I was surprised to know 6 full time programmers are hired by Engine yard > to work full time on this project. I am not at all, their goal is make Rubinius one of the best and most advanced VM for dynamic languages, six guys seems quite a small lot to me. > > Since i am new to this ruby world... my knowledge is limited. Even if you were ancient to the ruby world your knowledge would be limited ;). But a very warm welcome. Enough of the stupid writing I have given, there are excellent casts about this out there, let's see if I can find them for you: Ruby Implementors panel http://mtnwestrubyconf2007.confreaks.com/session04.html Interview with Evan http://static.rubiverse.com/podcasts/3-evan-phoenix-on-rubinius.mp3 and of course http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/12/rubinius-interview.html HTH Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein