From: Michael Neumann Date: 2009-04-01T18:14:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Move over, Phusion, here comes the *real* Enterprise Edition! hemant wrote: > 2009/4/1 Jörg W Mittag : >> Hi! >> >> I just learned about another new Ruby Implementation. This one is >> called "Blue Ruby" and it is developed by SAP Labs in Palo Alto. >> It's – are you all sitting down? – a Ruby Implementation for the ABAP >> Virtual Machine, written in ABAP. >> >> There seem to be some similarities with MacRuby, in that Blue Ruby >> attempts a very tight integration with the ABAP call stack, so that >> two-way integration is totally seamless. >> >> According to the technical whitepaper, Blue Ruby currently (as of >> 2009-03-27, i.e. four days ago) passes 70.2% of RubySpec (88.8% >> language, 67.2% core library), which I find quite impressive. Blue >> Ruby is yet another Ruby Implementation that has received a >> significant development boost from RubySpec and ruby_parser. Kudos to >> the Rubinius community! >> >> You can find more information about Blue Ruby here: >> >> >> >> The technical whitepaper is here: >> >> >> >> And an introductory blog entry is here: >> >> >> >> BTW: If I counted correctly, we can soon celebrate the 30th Ruby >> Implementation! > > It must be an April fool joke. If a new implementation doesn't > accompany screaming benchmark numbers reported by antoniocangiano, its > vaporware. It doesn't exist. Forget about it. It's not an April fool! The information came up a lot earlier than today, it's just that the posting was very unluckily timed :). Read the whitepaper and you'll notice that it's "real". Regards, Michael