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For being a very young project (Evan���s been working on it about a year, but it���s only been in the public view for a few months), Rubinius has quickly hit primetime with the first (that I know of) FUD-ish review The basic premise is that pypy had money, minds, and at least one goal to produce a simpler VM than CPython, but as it nears 1.0 it���s much more complex than CPython. And since Rubinius is at least lacking in official monetary backing, it���s got a real tough row to hoe. Maybe; but I���m unconvinced.

The jury is still out on the mind-share Rubinius will ultimately attract. We���re certainly not sneezing at anyone���s contribution. And if you hang out in the channel, you might notice some rather interesting conversations between the JRuby folks and the Rubinius folks. You���ll definitely hear conversations about PIC, STM, concurrency models that make you go ���Ohh��� (thanks MenTaLguY), the possibilities of LLVM, even JIT���ing (though, to hear JP tell it, we���re hopelessly unqualified for that). I���d guess a who���s-who on Rubinius would turn up some rather accomplished folks. Personally, It is encouraging that I didn���t have to write the book on compilers to be able to hack on Rubinius. But really, do you have to know everything to jump into a project and start learning and applying it?

Let���s just say, I���m sure glad Linus was not deterred by the fact that IBM, SCO, AT&T, and Micro$oft had billions of dollars to spend on operating system development. Anyway, I���ll bet the ���Yes, but does it scale?��� posts will be showing up shortly. C���mon JP, live a little.