llvmruby.org

I’ve been busy with my day job and not so busy on llvmruby. I got more interested in writing a static compiler for a type-inferred subset of Ruby ala RPython than in the YARV/JIT work I was doing so got a little distracted. Fortunately, open-source software lets others move in and pick up the slack and today I noticed a new yarv2llvm project on github which looks like it’s already yielded some interesting results.

As far as development on llvmruby itself, I added more complete floating point and casting support in response to some requests from Christoffer Lernö who was also kind enough to write some preliminary documentation. I also received some nice patches from Christian Plessl and Marc-Andre Cournoyer. It’s very satisfying to see that kind of support from the community.

I wish it was easier to communicate with the Japanese side of the Ruby community as I’ve noticed some interesting things like this (seemingly successful) effort to get llvmruby to work on Windows under Cygwin. Time to try contacting and crossing the language barrier I guess.