Highlights: * Focus on YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) * Improved character encoding support * Adding parameter distinguishers a la Objective-C/SmallTalk. e.

Highlights: * Focus on YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) * Improved character encoding support * Adding parameter distinguishers a la Objective-C/SmallTalk. e.g. def step(by: step, to: limit) vs def step(step, limit) * Adding scope encapsulation to monkey patching to avoid conflicting changes throughout projects * Adding conflict resolution to Mix-ins by allowing method renaming for conflicting methods * Add method combinations similar to what exists in Common Lisp * New implementation of Ruby interpreter for embedded systems (RITE) Hoping to dethrone LUA for game programming Want to enter appliances and distributed computing