From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T00:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Strongtalk VM now open source

On 12/09/06, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... except the JRuby implementation 1) is there, 2) is founded, 3)
> runs on a gazillion of platforms.  (AFAICS, they don't even manage to
> compile their own Strongtalk source. ;-))
>
> Strongtalk definitely needs a lot of work before it's useful to a
> possible Ruby implementation.
>
> But, sure, read the papers and see what can be done.

It's also not the first time someone has talked about running Ruby on
a Smalltalk VM on this list. Peter Suk's Alumina VM project seems to
be moribund, however.

As you say, the big benefit of JRuby is that it's already here and
working. That's definitely worth something.

Paul.