From: "Charles Oliver Nutter" <headius / headius.com>
>
> duby version 0.0.1 has been released!
> 
> * <http://kenai.com/projects/duby>
> 
> Duby is a customizable programming language featuring static types,
> local type inference and a heavily Ruby-inspired syntax. Duby
> currently includes a typer/compiler backend for the JVM which can
> output either JVM bytecode or Java source files.

Wow!  That Fibonacci example on http://kenai.com/projects/duby/pages/DubySamples
is really neat, especially the return value inferencing. 

I would love it if ruby had something baked-in to the language that was
so unobtrusive, so much like writing regular ruby, but which could 
compile to fast static code.

I've wondered to what degree such a thing might be possible, but I
never realized it could really mirror regular ruby that closely.  Very cool.

Is your system able to compile floating point operations down to
primitives the way it does with fixnums?


Regards,

Bill