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title: Ruby in Ruby is 100% ruby
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<h1><span>Ruby in Ruby. With more ruby and nothing but ruby.</span></h1>
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<p>"Hey crystal, what do you want to be when you grow up". I like pink, i wanna be a ruby.</p>
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<p><span>Ruby in ruby hopes make the the mysterious more accessible, shed light in the farthest (ruby) corners, and above all, <b>empower you</b> </span></p>
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<p><span>Three ideas are behind it</span></p>
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<h2 class="center"> A better tool, a better job</h2>
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Ruby is the better tool to do the job. Any software job that is. We who use ruby daily do so because it is
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more productive, better in almost every way. The only downside is speed and we argue that with cheap resources.
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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).
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Just a short and subjective list of why ruby is the better tool:
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<li>More fun. Ask anyone</li>
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<li>Lets you focuss on the task</li>
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<li>Elegant, both in syntax and solution</li>
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<li>Understandable</li>
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<li>Much faster to code</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 class="center">Boys and toys</h2>
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Rails has evolved tremendously from what was already a good start. All the development <em>around</em> it has nurtured
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ruby developement in all areas. Rails and all those parts make up the most mature and advanced software system
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i know.
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<p> The "rails effect" is due to the accessibility of the system, imho. Ie it is written in ruby.</p>
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<p> Ruby itself has not enjoyed this rails effect, and that is because it is written in C (or c++) </p>
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<p> 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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<h2 class="center">Evolutionary step</h2>
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The first thing any decent comiler 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.
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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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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 <em>static</em> code is fast.
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On a very similar note there we are lead to believe that os features must be used from c. Whereas system calls
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are software interrupts and only the c std library makes them look like c functions. But they are not.
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So now, are we ready to generate some bytes? even if they are Machine Code. And go to the Source? I say we are!
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