From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-04-16T01:21:21+09:00
Subject: Re: making Ruby a standard browser side language

SpringFlowers AutumnMoon wrote:
> it looks like Prototype was made to mimic Ruby in Javascript, and people
> who use Prototype usually love it.  I wonder if Ruby can be made into
> another browser side language and what can make that happen?  If Firefox
> adds a Ruby interpreter to its browser and some killer websites come out
> with features only supported by Ruby-enabled browsers, maybe Microsoft
> and Apple will have incentive to make Ruby go into IE and Safari too?
> Apple probably already loves Ruby as they put Ruby on Tiger and then
> added Rails on Leopard.

An interesting attempt to interpret ruby bytecodes (YARV) in javascript:

http://hotruby.accelart.jp

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