From: Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com>
Date: 2007-10-23T07:17:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me?

Jay Levitt wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:29:32 +0900, Lloyd Linklater wrote:
> 
>> Ruby cannot be 
>> written in Ruby.  Ruby is interpreted and can never run as fast as 
>> Delphi.
> 
> Actually, both of these are now/soon-to-be incorrect...
> 
> Rubinius (http://rubini.us) is a Ruby virtual machine, and one of its 
> goals
> IIRC is to become self-hosting.  Its core libraries are mostly in Ruby
> already.
> 
> JRuby (http://jruby.codehaus.org) now has its first bytecode compiler;
> they're already working on a second one.
> 
> Hooray for diversity!

Ruby can do wondrous things.  Making libraries is necessary for any 
language to endure.  It was not that to which I referred.  Delphi is 
written entirely in Delphi.  When the Ruby compiler is also written in 
Ruby, then it will have caught up to Delphi in that respect.  I do not 
think that this is necessary at all.  Ruby does just fine without doing 
that.
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