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Monday, 5th May 2008

Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places). In a characteristic stroke of genius, _why makes a solid initial attempt at compiling Ruby 1.9 source to Python 2.5 bytecode.

# 10:13 pm / bytecode, googleappengine, python, ruby, whytheluckystiff

What amazes me is how close Ruby 1.9 bytecode and Python 2.5 bytecode are. Some things translate almost directly. [...] And, really, if that's true (and I vouch that it is truly, truly true,) then how are Python and Ruby still on separate runtimes?

Why the lucky stiff

# 10:14 pm / python, ruby, whytheluckystiff

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