[Ruby] PRESS RELEASE: PeepCode Places US$1000 Bet on Rubinius

[Geoffrey Grosenbach]

For Immediate Release


PeepCode Screencasts Places a $1,000 Bet on Rubinius

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- December 6, 2006 -- Today PeepCode Screencasts  
donated US$1,000 to kickstart the Rubinius Project. Rubinius is a  
fast, maintainable, 1.8-compatible Ruby interpreter currently in  
active development.

Rubinius has been preceeded by several prototypes over the past year.  
Sydney was an attempt to patch the existing Ruby implementation with  
features such as native threads and more extensive introspection.  
Other prototypes took ideas from early Smalltalk interpreters and  
applied those ideas to Ruby. The current implementation is an attempt  
to create a Ruby interpreter in Ruby that can translate itself out  
into a C interpreter.

Developer Evan Phoenix will be dedicating the month of December to  
work on the project before starting other fulltime work in January.  
However, development will continue throughout 2007.

Donations can be sent via PayPal to: evan at fallingsnow dot net.

More information on Rubinius can be found at http:// 
blog.fallingsnow.net/rubinius/

PeepCode Screencasts is a series of Ruby on Rails tutorials. Single  
episodes are available for US$9 and can be found at http://peepcode.com




Geoffrey Grosenbach
boss at topfunky.com
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Podcast | http://podcast.rubyonrails.com
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