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vic / typhon

typhon

Snakes on rbx-head. A Python implementation for the Rubinius VM

2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
83GitHub stars
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What it is

Snakes on rbx-head. A Python implementation for the Rubinius VM

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-01-02 03:51:27 UTC to 2011-08-26 18:23:32 UTC.

0122011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsAug 2011

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Jan 20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20112011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20112011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20112011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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This is a great overview about the two interpreters! However, I think you're being a bit inaccurate about how flexible the Rubinius VM is. It is certainly more than flexible enough to support a wide variety of non-Ruby languages. The core Rubinius team bas been working towards a language-agnostic core, and toolchains for building your own language on top of the Rubinius VM. See http://rubini.us/2011/02/17/rubinius-what-s-next/#multi-lang... and http://rubini.us/2011/02/23/introduction-to-fancy/ There are already a good number of language projects that build upon it: http://rubini.us/projects/ Fancy is one of the more mature languages built on it (and it's self-hosted): https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy. Note that Fancy was originally written as an interpreter in C++ - they ported it to the Rubinius VM at a later point. There's even a
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n (immature) Python that runs on top of it: https://github.com/vic/typhon.
In PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation
This is a great overview about the two interpreters! However, I think you're being a bit inaccurate about how flexible the Rubinius VM is. It is certainly more than flexible enough to support a wide variety of non-Ruby languages. The core Rubinius team bas been working towards a language-agnostic core, and toolchains for building your own language on top of the Rubinius VM. See http://rubini.us/2011/02/17/rubinius-what-s-next/#multi-lang... and http://rubini.us/2011/02/23/introduction-to-fancy/ There are already a good number of language projects that build upon it: http://rubini.us/projects/ Fancy is one of the more mature languages built on it (and it's self-hosted): https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy. There's even an (immature) Python that runs on top of it: https://github.com/vic/typhon.
In PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation

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