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The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

Posted by Soulskill from the take-your-pick dept.
igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

Comment 32bit to 32bit (Score 1) 739

by melancolico (#27712427) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?
When Windows 95 came out I was using OS/2 Warp. A friend of mine was operating a BBS and suggested I try this operating system called Linux. Going to bookstores I found some books that included some distribution or another, I tried Slackware 3.0. The only challenge I faced at first was configuring X11 to work on my S3 Virge, once that was done and I could use more than the text console the flood gates were open and dove completely into this free 32-bit alternative. It's been a very long painful road to take, but the joys of never getting a computer virus, or having a coherent system with files dating back to early 1990's far outweigh the pains of setting it all up. I use BSD for server duties, but I still use Linux to fix Windows machines and as a primary desktop. Compared to 10 years ago, Linux is dream to install, configure and use pretty much any distro.

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