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From: Martin DeMello on 4 Jul 2010 13:22
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/2010 04:49 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Eleanor McHugh
>> <eleanor(a)games-with-brains.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I seem to have been missing in action for the best part of six months so
>>> I thought it was about time I put together a progress report and pimped the
>>> vapourware in hopes of finding some likeminded miscreants/dilettantes to
>>> turn it into something more substantial.
>>>
>>> There're probably only a handful of people on here who'll be interested
>>> in what follows so I've marked it OT for those of you interested exclusively
>>> in Ruby. Feel free to press delete, I won't be offended :)
>>
>> Fascinating stuff. I've always wanted to play around with Go, but have
>> been putting it off because I'm dabbling in too many languages
>> already. (My long term plan, though, is to use it to write a modal
>> text editor with an embedded scheme as its scripting language.
>> Basically a vim clone but using a real language to extend itself. Go
>> seems like an excellent choice of language to write the core in.)
>
> yemacs?  SCNR

not a huge fan of elisp either (:

martin

From: Martin DeMello on 4 Jul 2010 13:24
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor(a)games-with-brains.com> wrote:
>
> I still find myself missing Ruby conveniences such as proper exception handling and first-class meta-programming support, but it's a remarkably productive language compared to C(++) or Java. It's also got a nice simple testing framework that includes benchmarking support which I may port to Ruby at some point - it's much simpler than all the TDD/BDD tools (which is probably why I like it).
>
> There are a couple of Scheme implementations in Go which might fit the needs of your editor, but if they don't then let me know and I'll see if the GoLightly Scheme can be turned into a scripting engine.

Will do :) Trying to decide between OCaml and Go right now for the core engine.

martin

From: Chuck Remes on 6 Jul 2010 14:56

On Jul 2, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> I seem to have been missing in action for the best part of six months so I thought it was about time I put together a progress report and pimped the vapourware in hopes of finding some likeminded miscreants/dilettantes to turn it into something more substantial.
> [snip]
>
> However the ultimate destination is RubyGoLightly, the Ruby runtime that scratches the itch of using Ruby as a systems language. No promises about where or when, and very few about how... but I promise to check in with another status report in a few months that will hopefully be more insightful.

Perhaps this will be of some interest?

http://github.com/brixen/gor

It is the Go language running on the rubinius VM.

cr


From: Louis-Philippe on 6 Jul 2010 15:31
[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

so many vaporwares with so little time on hands... which ones should I
choose!

2010/7/6 Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist(a)mac.com>

>
> On Jul 2, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>
> > I seem to have been missing in action for the best part of six months so
> I thought it was about time I put together a progress report and pimped the
> vapourware in hopes of finding some likeminded miscreants/dilettantes to
> turn it into something more substantial.
> > [snip]
> >
> > However the ultimate destination is RubyGoLightly, the Ruby runtime that
> scratches the itch of using Ruby as a systems language. No promises about
> where or when, and very few about how... but I promise to check in with
> another status report in a few months that will hopefully be more
> insightful.
>
> Perhaps this will be of some interest?
>
> http://github.com/brixen/gor
>
> It is the Go language running on the rubinius VM.
>
> cr
>
>
>

From: Chuck Remes on 6 Jul 2010 15:35

On Jul 6, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Louis-Philippe wrote:

> so many vaporwares with so little time on hands... which ones should I
> choose!
>
> 2010/7/6 Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist(a)mac.com>
>
>>
>> On Jul 2, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>>
>>> I seem to have been missing in action for the best part of six months so
>> I thought it was about time I put together a progress report and pimped the
>> vapourware in hopes of finding some likeminded miscreants/dilettantes to
>> turn it into something more substantial.
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> However the ultimate destination is RubyGoLightly, the Ruby runtime that
>> scratches the itch of using Ruby as a systems language. No promises about
>> where or when, and very few about how... but I promise to check in with
>> another status report in a few months that will hopefully be more
>> insightful.
>>
>> Perhaps this will be of some interest?
>>
>> http://github.com/brixen/gor
>>
>> It is the Go language running on the rubinius VM.

Heh. :)

Follow/watch the project and see if anything happens. It only hurts a little.

cr


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