metaruby

Metaruby is a reimplementation of ruby in ruby.

NOTE: This project is dead.

metaruby is a reimplementation of ruby in ruby. The intent is to make it easier to understand, maintain, and extend ruby.

Eventually it will have a complete parser, interpreter, core library, and a ruby-subset-to-c translator (maybe parrot instead… not sure). We’ll be modifying rubicon as our test suite.

Milestones:

1. Basic Porting

   1. [DONE] everything.rb generats and runs without warnings.
      1. [DONE] preprocess.rb and port.rb have the absolute minimum of HACK tags.

2. Parser/Interpreter/Translator

   1. parser does a sucessful first pass at everything.rb
   2. parser actually generates ASTs
   3. interpreter can run ASTs
   4. Library milestones can pass under interpreter
   5. parser can generate C and/or parrot code.
   6. Library milestones can pass under generated & compiled interproter.

3. Library

   1. ZArray passes all of it’s rubicon tests using ruby interpreter
   2. ZHash, ZFile, ZIO, ZDictionary pass all their tests

Features/Problems

• Soooo far from done…

Get The Code

If you just want to use metaruby, you can install it via RubyGems:

gem install metaruby

If you want to hack on metaruby, clone it from GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/seattlerb/metaruby

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