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Ruby on the Apple II (2019) [video]

by nf3 on 2/10/24, 11:02 AM with 9 comments

• by DonHopkins on 2/11/24, 6:20 PM

  Design a byte code like Sweet 16 or UCSD Pascal, and compile Ruby to that.

  It would certainly be more space/time efficient than Manx Aztec C, which was terrible.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C

  Hilarious discussion on the talk page -- I used Aztec C but I have not vanished yet:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aztec_C#WHO_vanished%3F

  I had a Legend Industries 128KDE memory expansion card on my Apple ][+ -- that would help!

  Washington Apple PI, January 1982, p. 12, "I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH MEMORY I HAVE" by David Morganstein:

  https://www.wap.org/journal/showcase/washingtonapplepijourna...

• by glimshe on 2/10/24, 11:35 AM

  Pointless, time waste, unnecessary.

  I love it!

• by ufmace on 2/11/24, 8:02 PM

  This is very cool. I wonder how much of Ruby was actually implemented. Obviously a few things work, but I'm pretty sure you'd never get regex and hashtables and all the other piles of complex stuff in the standard lib working under those constraints.

• by LeonardoTolstoy on 2/11/24, 5:55 PM

  I suppose coincidentally I just got my old IIc from my dad. Pretty fun. Just kind of working out how best to backup the disks I got, so the journey is just beginning.

  Maybe eventually I'll get around to making a game or doing something weird like this. Great talk.

• by backspace_ on 2/11/24, 4:52 PM

  Pretty cool.

  Can the Apple II run rust?