Rubinius – Ruby’s Answer to Squeak?
If you’re familiar with Smalltalk, then you know that Smalltalk has something called Squeak. What’s nice about Squeak is that it’s a VM that’s portable and makes distribution of apps really easy. But let’s not get into Squeak right now. After all, this is a Ruby blog.
My buddy Bernie, who I introduced Ruby and Rails to, brought Rubinius to my attention. We were talking about perhaps building a Ruby compiler since we both worked on a scripting language at my current employer. Well, Rubinius appears to be better than a compiler, it’s a VM. It provide a runtime environment that promises to increase performance as well as improve the distribution of apps.
I’m going to keep my eyes on this project as I’m somewhat excited about it.
