Dangerous Ideas

There’s an interesting discussion going on HREF Considered Harmful, Avi Bryan’ts blog. Avi posted a few messages about the idea of implementing Ruby on a Smalltalk, such as the recently open sourced Strongtalk (a high-performance variant of Smalltalk). Many people have contributed lots of insight to this, including JRuby Charles Oliver Nutter. Avi started a Google Group about Ruby on Smalltalk.

Sounds like an interesting idea – a way to get a much faster Ruby plus the great dev. tools that have existed in Smalltalk for years. It might be a way to run Ruby faster than JRuby and would probably be easier to implement than YARV.