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Fancy is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby, Io and Erlang that runs on the Rubinius VM.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2011-02-24 · latest 2014-03-28

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  1. Fancy[0] is one of the most mature languages on the VM other than Ruby I believe. [0] https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy
    comment by cookrn · 2014-03-28 · in GNU Guile 2.0.10
  2. …and it has it's own bytecode format, so you can easily compile your own language to it. Fancy ( https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy ) is a great example of this. It compiles to Rubinius bytecode and executes it within the virtual machine.
    comment by TheHydroImpulse · 2014-02-01 · in Optimize your JS with IRHydra 2 for V8
  3. …Fancy is one of the more mature languages built on it (and it's self-hosted): https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy . Note that Fancy was originally written as an interpreter in C++ - they ported it to the Rubinius VM at a later point. Ther
  4. …Fancy is one of the more mature languages built on it (and it's self-hosted): https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy . There's even an (immature) Python that runs on top of it: https://github.com/vic/typhon .
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    story by m0th87 · 2011-07-20 · 0 comments
  6. …but there is some code in the examples lib in github. It looks more like Io than erlang to me. https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy/blob/master/examples/async... https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy/blob/master/examples/futur...…
  7. Btw, here's a list of current features I forgot to link to in the post: https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy/blob/master/doc/features.m...