Ruby v 2?

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Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

Thanks,
Ken

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the
progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

Thanks,
Ken

Hi Ken,

I don't know of anything official (but I'm not "in the know" about
those things). Some places to keep on eye on for progress towards v2:

YARV: YARV: Yet Another Ruby VM
RubyGrammar: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygrammar/ (also
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar\)
MetaRuby: Ruby | zenspider.com | by ryan davis

Regards,
Jordan

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the
progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

I was wondering the same. From what I understand (and I don't that
much) the latest news come from approximatly one year ago in the last
Ruby Conf when the latest ideas were presented.

I would imagine something similar might happen again at the next Ruby
Conf (in approximatly a month): all I know is that Matz is giving the
keynote.
(http://www.rubycentral.org/conference/talks.html\)

Personally I'd really like to know more about it. :slight_smile:

Diego

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Kenneth McDonald wrote:

Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.

Thanks,
Ken

There's a few people quietly using yarv(which will very likely form the basis for ruby2.0) and the occasional bug/benchmark/comment posted to yarv-dev-en.

svn checkout http://www.atdot.net/svn/yarv/trunk
if you want to take a look at code and/or play around with it. It's usable and comparatively fast and potentially getting pretty stable. I think development has slowed down a little recently though, not been any commits since the first.

John

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MonkeeSage wrote:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby.grammar

= http://news.gmane.org/group/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.grammar

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Ruby 1.9 is due for release in 2007 (I think late in the year). The intention
of this release is to smoke out a lot of the issues that will be central to 2.0
i.e. break early in 1.8 ->1.9 so that 1.9->2.0 is an easier transition.

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On 9/24/06, Diego Virasoro <Diego.Virasoro@gmail.com> wrote:

Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> Just curious is there is any firm news, guesstimates, etc. as to the
> progress of Ruby 2 and when it might actually make a public appearance.
>