From: Tony Arcieri Date: 2009-03-18T02:48:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Reia -- a Ruby fork? --000e0cd47c7e55b031046554345f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM, pat eyler wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Trans wrote: > > Has anyone played around with Reia? > > > > http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master > > > > The syntax looks so close to Ruby's in most cases, it looks more like > > a Ruby fork built on the Erlang VM. > > It's a ruby-like language, but not really a fork. You > can read an interview with the developer here: > > > http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-language-on-erlang-vm.html > Hi, I'm the developer. Yes, this is correct. Reia is its own language and is not a fork of Ruby. The syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby, however past the cosmetic level things get very, very different. Reia runs on the Erlang VM and attempts to use the object system itself as the concurrency mechanism. All objects in Reia execute concurrently and synchronize with messaging. -- Tony Arcieri medioh.com --000e0cd47c7e55b031046554345f--