From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-01-15T23:11:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby OS mentioned on /. (Ruby/DL)

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:23:49 +0000, Phil Tomson wrote:

> In article <4006286C.508@zara.6.isreserved.com>,
> David Garamond  <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> wrote:
>>Charles Comstock wrote:
>>> Umm I really don't think ruby is fast enough a language to write an OS in.
>>> Don't get me wrong, I love the language and all, but an OS is just one
>>of those
>>> places where every little bit of speed counts.  
> 
> Yes.  It's hard to see how you could write an OS in Ruby at this point.
> 
> If you could compile Ruby code to native code then it would be another 
> story.

cannot, but we would like to write the lolevel layers in ruby, such
as kernel, drivers, gui-rendering.  But speed will certainly become an
issue. Therefore we have to stick with C/C++ for this.
Though before we implement it, we first prototype it in Ruby.

Ruby will be used for as much hilevel code as possible.
init-system, managing preferences, exotic io-slaves, ...

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Simon Strandgaard