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read the slides, its still relevant. 1.8.x and 1.9 are just experimentation and intermediate steps to ruby 2.0 which is a "start from scratch" project

• 9oliYQjP 18y ago
  Uh oh. I did not know that version 2.0 will be such a project. Any bets on whether it'll succeed at its goals by starting from scratch? The track record on that sort of thing in technology is notoriously lopsided in favour of failure.
  • zenspider 18y ago
    not true anymore... disregard
    • khafra 18y ago
      How many ground-up rebuilds of large, highly popular projects succeeded in the 3 hours between those two comments, to change the ratio?
• kschrader 18y ago
  Ruby 2.0 is a not a "start from scratch" project. It's an evolution of the language (which will be done mostly in the experimental 1.9 releases) with a new interpreter. Once 1.9 is stable it will turn into the 2.0 release. The actual effect on Ruby users will be noticeable, but minimal. See http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes+in+Ruby+1.9 http://eigenclass.org/hiki/Changes+in+Ruby+1.9 for some of the changes that are coming up.
  • zenspider 18y ago
    with one clarification... (last I checked) 1.9.1 will be the stable, it won't be incremented to 2.0. Matz decided against the even/odd = stable/dev versioning scheme.
  • ntoshev 18y ago
    It is not a start from scratch, but it is incompatible with previous versions of Ruby in significant ways.
  • jotto 18y ago
    "start from scratch" is a quote off of matz's slides.