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

[sant0sk1]

http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html

[sah]

This is neat. A complete Ruby-to-pyc compiler might be a faster implementation of Ruby than the original one.

[bprater]

That _why_the_lucky_ guy sure is a bright one.

[hwork]

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.

[fdb]

Isn't this what Parrot (http://www.parrotcode.org/) set out to do? Any idea how that project is coming along?

[suboptimal → fdb]

He's resting.

[jrockway → suboptimal]

Uh, no. It's actively developed (100s of commits per week) and is quite close to a 1.0 release.

[DaniFong → suboptimal]

Pining for the fjords?

[jmtulloss]

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 → jmtulloss]

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.

[troystribling → mlinsey]

Heroku is pretty close http://heroku.com/. I think it is funded by YC.

[atog]

I'm a fan!