From: Mohit Sindhwani <rcore_ml@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T01:38:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18274] Re: Definition of "Support levels", 1.9.1 supported platforms and recruitment for platform maintainers

Hi Matz

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Embedded systems are interesting field, although I have no experience
> on them.  I saw Toshiba's demo on Cairo + Ruby on a Cell based Video
> Recorder.  It was fantastic.  I really hope to see them on production.

Embedded systems is very much my area of work!  I come to Tokyo every 
Dec to participate in an embedded systems trade show.  It would be my 
pleasure to show you around the exhibits :)

To be honest, the current perception of Ruby needing lots of RAM does it 
make it a tight fit in smaller embedded systems (not those running on 
the Cell or high MHz ARM processor), but there are examples of Ruby (and 
even Rails) being used in some simpler applications.  Anyway, one step 
at a time - first, I need to brace myself for the responsibility of 
being a potential maintainer of Ruby...

Cheers,
Mohit.
8/14/2008 | 12:38 AM.