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layout: project
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title: Ruby in Ruby
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sub-title: RubyX hopes make the the mysterious more accessible, shed light in the farthest (ruby) corners, and above all,
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%b empower you
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.row
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.tripple
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%h2.center A better tool, a better job
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%p
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Ruby is the better tool to do the job. Any software job that is.
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We, who use ruby daily do so because it is more productive,
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better in almost every way.
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The only downside is speed and we argue that with cheap resources.
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%p
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Why it has taken this long to even seriously attempt a ruby implementation in ruby is due to the overwhelming
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influence of C (folks), especially at the time.
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%p
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Just a short and subjective list of why ruby is the better tool:
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%ul
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%li More fun. Ask anyone :-)
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%li Lets you focus on the task
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%li Elegant, both in syntax and solution
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%li Understandable
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%li Much faster to code
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.tripple
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%h2.center Boys and toys
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%p
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Rails has evolved tremendously from what was already a good start. All the development
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%em around
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it has nurtured
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ruby developement in all areas. Rails and all those parts make up a most mature and advanced software system.
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%p The "rails effect" is due to the accessibility of the system, imho. Ie it is written in ruby.
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%p
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Ruby itself has not enjoyed this rails effect, and that is because it is written in C
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Crystal, Rust, Go Julia etc, have, for the exact same reason.
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%p
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It is my firm belief that given a vm in ruby, ruby development will "take off" too. In other words, given an
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easy way to improve his tools, a developer will do so. Easy means understandable and that means ruby for a
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ruby developer
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.tripple
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%h2.center Step to Indepencance
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%p
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The first thing any decent compiler does, is compile itself. It is the maturity test of a language to implement
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itself in itself, and the time has come for ruby. The mark of growing up is being independant, in ruby's case of C.
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%p
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Having just learned Assembler, i can attest what a great improvement C is over Assembler.
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But that was then and it is not just chance that developemnt has been slow in the last 50 years.
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%p
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There is this attitude C believers elude and since they are the gatekeepers of the os,
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everyone is fooled into believing only c is fast. Whereas what is true is that
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= succeed "is" do
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%em complied (binary) code
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%p
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On a very similar note we are lead to believe that os features must be used from c. Whereas system calls
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are software interrupts, not really
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%em
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calls
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%em
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at all.
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Only the c std library makes them look like c functions, but they are not.
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.span12
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%p.center
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%span
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%b So what does empowerment mean.
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%p
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For me it is means owning your tools.
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For everyone to really be able to unfold their ideas and potential.
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Not to be stuck, rather to be able to change anything one wishes.
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We usually own the code we write, and we have seen amazing progress in opening up new ideas.
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%p
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So it is hard to even think of ruby holding us back, and it isn't off course, only current implementations of it are.
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%p
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Concretely what does this mean: Well i don't know do i! That's the whole point, that anyone can improve it beyond
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the original creators horizon.
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%p
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But to mention a few things that have crossed my mind (and that i will most certainly not implement)
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%ul
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%li Efficient vector extensions that use cpu/gpu instructions not supported in the core
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%li Efficient graphics extensions
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%li New language features, ie real dsl's that extend the parser on the fly
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%li Off course there is always new cpu's and os's
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%li Better implementation of core datastructures. Did i hear digital trees being mentioned?
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%li Better gc's, better memory management.
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%li Superoptimization! (heard of that one?)
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%p
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And the fun thing is off course that all the above can be created as gems. No recompiling, no rvm/rbenv.
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Anyone can choose how they want to pimp
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their vm in the same way as you can decide what stack/tools you use in a rails project. And we have the essential
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tool to do this: the bundler.
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%p And off course democracy decides what is good and what will stay. Natural extinction and all.
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