From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-21T23:09:21+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

Hi,

In message "matz thoughts on Rite ?"
    on 03/07/21, "Simon Strandgaard" <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@sneakemail.com> writes:

|What is long term goals for Rite ?
|Will it be backward-compatible with Ruby-1.9 ?
|Will there be real threading support ?
|How about unicode ?
|Can people contribute to create Rite (matz helpers/slaves) ?

Its goal is faster, smaller, more portable.

It will

  * have native thread support.
  * unicode aware (along with other encoding schemes)

We don't have any code yet to work on.  I cannot spare time for Rite
now, so that Rite will be complete vaporware for a while.  Perhaps
until 1.8.0 is out.


							matz.