From: Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T18:26:48+09:00
Subject: Ruby on Neko ?

Hi folks,

I've been working recently on a project called Neko (http://nekovm.org). 
Neko is an intermediate dynamicly typed programming language designed to 
be targeted by other languages such as Ruby in order to provide a common 
runtime.

The Neko Virtual Machine is pretty fast, outperform Python and PHP, and 
there is a pretty good C FFI interface for extending it with more 
libraries (a few of them are already available, watch the docs).

I would be interested to get in touch with people interested at trying 
to run Ruby on Neko. Basicly that consists in writing a program that 
transform Ruby source code into Neko source code. Since I don't have big 
knowledge in Ruby and there is no full language reference I'm looking 
for people familiar with it to help.

I think that having Ruby on Neko would be a very good thing for Ruby 
itself. For example there is a mod_neko for Apache and the whole Neko 
compiler is available as a Neko library so is fully reusable at runtime.

Anyway, keep up with the great work !

PS : Hi to Matz !

Nicolas