jrubyconf Mirah lightning talk

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Mirah

Three things

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• newast
• hackathon results
• REPL*

newast

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• self hosted
• vistor pattern
• new parser

hackathon

• April 9-20

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Happy mirah hackathon day! Mirah is simply freaking awesome. @mirahlang

— Bruce Hauman (@bhauman) April 10, 2012

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46 commits!

• https://github.com/mirah/mirah/compare/6d0821f5...f5fdb071

easy to build

self hosted macros support

basic generics support

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import java.util.ArrayList

foo = ArrayList.new()
foo.add("first string")
foo.add("second string")
System.out.println(foo.get(0).substring(2))

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172 tests, 459 assertions, 10 failures, 29 errors

REPL*

*sort of

Actually a total hack.

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Links

• github.com/mirah/mirah
• REPL - https://gist.github.com/2564819
• slides - https://gist.github.com/2771153

One more thing: Lunch

Wednesday 12:15 @ Wasabi Fusion

Me

• Nick Howard
• @baroquebobcat
• works at Gnip in Boulder, CO

We're hiring