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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)

63 points| sant0sk1 | 18 years ago |hackety.org | reply

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[+] sah|18 years ago|reply
This is neat. A complete Ruby-to-pyc compiler might be a faster implementation of Ruby than the original one.
[+] bprater|18 years ago|reply
That _why_the_lucky_ guy sure is a bright one.
[+] hwork|18 years ago|reply
why_ is really one of those dudes who needs to be funded by the community to work full-time on his awesome, wild projects. He is le-git.
[+] jmtulloss|18 years ago|reply
Python and Ruby are not so different that I really see the purpose of this. Compiling Python and/or Ruby to the Java or .NET runtime has clear benefits, but what is the benefit of this?
[+] mlinsey|18 years ago|reply
The main benefit, aside from that it's sort of cool, is that you would be able to write for Google App Engine in Ruby. Personally, I think that the similarities between Python and Ruby (particularly their bytecode similarities) makes Ruby the most obvious language to be added to GAE next; but there isn't anything quite as easy as GAE for getting your Ruby app off the ground right now.