Agreed, seeing as the point of Ruby is its ease. Having Ruby syntax for Neko would still support that effort as I find installing, maintaining and updating Neko far more simpler than the equivelent with Ruby, so I guess it would put the Ruby project to bed as it were. Besides, Neko runs like s**t of a shovel and beats Ruby for speed hands down.
:-) Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Feldt Sent: 09 June 2006 11:55 To: Neko intermediate language mailing list Subject: Re: [Neko] Curious about languages available for Neko > Robert Feldt started implementing a Ruby to Neko compiler in Ruby. He > can maybe talk more about it but I think he just did a proof-of-concept. > Yes, it was a proof-of-concept to explore some ways to map Ruby's OO mechanisms to Neko ones. It was fairly easy. > With further work it might be possible to run 100% of Ruby on NekoVM, > which might be very interesting for Ruby users interested in > performances. Of course one of the big part of the work is to > reimplement the Ruby C libraries by using the Neko ones. > If someone is interested in this I plan to work on it in late summer (I'm hoping the Neko JIT and maybe also continuation support will be there by then). Would be great to setup a group effort. Personally, I think a Ruby compiler targetting Neko is far more interesting and has more potential than the current efforts to implement a new and special Ruby VM for Ruby 2.0. YMMV. Best regards, Robert Feldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org) -- Neko : One VM to run them all (http://nekovm.org)
