From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T22:24:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Ruby.NET compiler

Josh Charles wrote:

> This may be posting to the wrong list, but someone here might know. 
> Does anyone know the status of the Ruby.NET compiler that is part of
> the Google's 'summer of code' project?  I've been looking at different
> possible Ruby VM's, including this one, YARV, and Rite, but being able
> to target a ECMA compliant Common Language Runtime would be very
> advantageousl

I'm the run-time guy for that project and have been working primarily at 
JScript.NET so far.

The Ruby.NET project was going somewhat slowly for quite some time, but 
it's still looking promising -- I think we will not be able to have much 
done at the end of the dead line, but from what I have heard continuing 
the project past the end of the SoC is an option and it certainly is one 
I would like to be used.

Currently the parser seems to be done and able to build up a node tree 
-- the code for this is already in Mono's SVN repository. The code 
generator is probably next.

Oh, and it appears that continuations are something that we might be 
able to do without stopping to use .NET calling conventions which is 
pretty interesting.

If you have any further questions, would like to get involved or just 
interested in the project feel free to join us via IRC on #ruby.net at 
irc.gimp.org.