_why the lucky stiff is awesome.
May 7th, 2008 by jbloom
Yet more proof of his awesomeness.
http://hackety.org/2008/05/05/sneakingRubyThroughGoogleAppEngine.html
Basically he’s shown a proof of converting Ruby bytecode into Python bytecode, enabling ruby to run in python only places, like Google app-engine. Quite cool.
Additionally he’s been creating hackety-hack which is an environment for anyone (children) to learn programming. _why’s built it out of ruby and gecko and his own shoes framework, it looks great so far.
Check out the first bylaw of hackety-hack:
Beginners should be greeted to Hackety Hack by a cartoon character. (For the sake of argument, let’s call this character: Hacky Mouse.)
Check it out:
