The Fancy Programming Language Google Group

On non-Rubinius VMs?

sebno...@gmail.com (Sebastian Nozzi) — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:42:47 UT

Hello list,
I came across your language. As a Smalltalk-fan, I am delighted :-)
Together with Ruby semantics it IS practically "SmalltalkScript" ;-)
Wanted to ask: does it run on non-Rubinius Ruby environments? I would love
to use it at work, but they use the "normal" Ruby VM... (1.8.7)
If not, are there plans to "port" it. Or does the nature of the

Fancy 0.8.0 released

bakkd...@gmail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:17:33 UT

Hello everyone,
I just released Fancy v0.8.0.
The updated RubyGem is also online: [link]
As usual, install via:
$ rbx -S gem install fancy
Alternatively, you can always pull and use the latest version on the master
branch from GitHub.
A recent version of Rubinius is suggested (I usually just upgrade rbx from

Fancy 0.7.0 released

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:02:08 UT

Just released Fancy 0.7.0 today.
A short summary of things improved / added:
- Updated package system (Uninstall, Installation of packages with binaries
/ scripts works fine now)
- Auto syntax highlight Fakefiles in Emacs mode (more on Fake below)
- Got Travis CI hook working again
- Many additions and improvements to the standard library

Fancy v0.6.0 released

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:33:31 UT

I've released Fancy v0.6.0 yesterday.
I've also uploaded the latest version as a Rubygem to
[link]
To install it run:
$ rbx -S gem install fancy
Or if you use rvm:
$ rvm use rbx
$ gem install fancy
You can also always run it from source by cloning the git
repo: [link]

RubyConf 2011 talk recording online

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:16:14 UT

The video recording of my RubyConf 2011 talk "Getting Fancy on Rubinius"
has been uploaded at Confreaks:
[link]
There's also a version of it on youtube:
[link]
Cheers,
Christopher.

Fancy Screencast: Building a simple link shortener with Sinatra and Redis

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:08:53 UT

I created a screencast showing how to build a simple link shortener webapp
using sinatra.fy and redis.fy.
I've uploaded it to youtube: [link]

Redis client library for Fancy

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:22:20 UT

Hi,
I wrote a simple Redis client library for
Fancy: [link]
It's still pretty basic, but useable.
As an example I added persistence using Redis to a simple link-shortener
app that uses sinatra.fy and redis.fy:
[link]
Christopher

Vim syntax highlighting file

ste...@nuclearsandwich.com (Steven! Ragnarök) — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:00:14 UT

I've a started pathogen compatible Vim plugin project for Fancy at
[link]
It's quite primitive at the moment, doesn't even do full syntax
highlighting. This is my first Vim plugin so it will be pretty slow
going but the more I fiddle with Fancy the happier with it I become.

v0.5.0 Released

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:37:15 UT

I just released v0.5.0
This release has mostly better documentation as well as a bunch of
performance improvements.
Some benchmarks that include lots of loops run up to 10x faster now.
A new language feature I've added is dynamic scoping (dynamic variables),
similar to Common Lisp or Clojure.
I've added an example in the examples/ directory. Also, all standard I/O

v0.4.0 Released

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:39:03 UT

Hey there,

I just released version 0.4.0 for Fancy.
It's available as a Rubygem here: [link]

I don't have a real changelog available (might post it later after looking
through the history) but basically lots of refactorings, feature additions,
bug fixes etc.
The next version (0.5.0) will probably use a new parser written in kpeg, a

Windows?

lordofthelemmi...@yahoo.com (LordoftheLemmings) — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:41:19 UT

Hi guys, I was wondering is it possible to run fancy on windows?

New Website

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:22:08 UT

I finally got to create a new website for Fancy: [link]
I never really liked the old wordpress-based site and it was out of date
most of the time anyway.
This one's alot simpler to navigate and it has some code samples right on
the front page.
Cheers,
Christopher.

New Rubygem released

bakkd...@googlemail.com (Christopher Bertels) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:52:17 UT

Hi everyone,
I pushed a new Rubygem today, see: [link]
You can install it via: $ rbx -S gem install fancy
This isn't a full official release but more of a snapshot release that's
easily installable.
Mostly to get some feedback, if people are interested.
New features that are in that gem:

Re: [fancy-lang] Benachrichtigung für fancy-lang@googlegroups.com - 2 Nachrichten in 1 Thema

em...@dennyabraham.com (Denny Abraham) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:11:30 UT

I briefly read over the actor components of rubinius and it seems very
erlang-inspired: every actor spawns in its own thread with its own
mailbox. There are also some facilities to register actors for global
discovery. I do not believe there's yet any way to communicate between
VM's.
The Io practice of actors via message passing does make more sense

Re: [fancy-lang] Benachrichtigung für fancy-lang@googlegroups.com - 1 Nachricht in 1 Thema

em...@dennyabraham.com (Denny Abraham) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:38:57 UT

Sounds like a solid set of upcoming features. Will there be a
functional difference between the Fancy actor library and the rubinius
stdlib actors?
2011/3/4 <fancy-lang+noreply@googlegrou ps.com>: