I found this blog post from Stephen O’ Grady an excellent summary on the latest news surrounding Sun open sourcing Java. It certainly saved a lot of time wading through Java Jargon just to find some real news.
Avi Bryant blogged about his first concrete steps towards getting Ruby running on top of a Smalltalk VM. He calls it Smalltalk.rb
I’m pretty sure this is the lightestweight bootstrap there can be towards the goal of eventually getting Ruby running on a Smalltalk VM. No new parser needed: we use JRuby’s. No new compiler needed: we use Squeak’s.
He also started a Google Group on it to get interested parties involved. I wish him and those the best of luck as this is very promising stuff.
About time…
Got to wait until Feb 2007 to get your hands on one though. Hope it doesn’t cost too much
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