The State of Ruby VMs mdash; Ruby Renaissance

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language mdash; Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/1423221/The-State-of-Ruby-VMs-mdash-Ruby-Renaissance?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/11/22/1423221"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/1423221/The-State-of-Ruby-VMs-mdash-Ruby-Renaissance?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvRI_8DhI4pdY4vXUHtx_xzv_kA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvRI_8DhI4pdY4vXUHtx_xzv_kA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvRI_8DhI4pdY4vXUHtx_xzv_kA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/rvRI_8DhI4pdY4vXUHtx_xzv_kA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/PG-8zW2w6KY" height="1" width="1"/

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