From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T01:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: matz thoughts on Rite ?

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:09:21 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

Some more Rite questions if its OK :-)

* will Rite be developed publicly.. Or will you keep it souce secret ?
* still use Ruby license scheme ?
* do you need help?  Say what we should do and we will do it :-)
* will it be like Ruby.. Or will there be minor/major differences ?
* will Rite use Mark&Sweep GC or something else ?


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Simon Strandgaard