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Got back from Mountain West RubyConf (MWRC) Saturday night. It was quite a fun rubyconf. The talks were by and large good, and there was lots of socializing (ie. networking), which is always one of the biggest reasons I go to conferences.

I was on a ruby implementors panel with the JRuby guys (Charlie and Tom), the CLR guy (John), and the Parrot guy (Kevin). It was fun, we just took questions from the audience and discussed them. It was all recorded, so I’ll be sure to post the link once the videos are up.

I got the word out about rubinius quite a bit and I’m really pleased at how interested people are in it. I got everything from “How does your garbage collector work?” to “I’d love to help, but I know crap about VMs”, which tells me that the project is appealing to not just VM geeks, but the normal programmer as well.

Pat Eyler and I talked briefly about setting up a release schedule for rubinius, working toward the 1.0 release in October. I’m pretty sold on it and I’ll be posting details in a bit, once I nail down the dates.