# RubyD -- Ruby in D?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyd-ruby-in-d/105517>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyd-ruby-in-d/105517 "2007-05-30T18:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyd-ruby-in-d/105517/1 "2007-05-30T18:00:52Z")

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I was looking through the latest Linux Format Magazine,  
(June 2007, LXF93) and it had an article on th D programming  
language. I had read some things about D before, but now it  
seems further along in development. It has built in garbage  
collection,  
is compatible with C system calls, et al.

Has anyone considered, tried, done a version of Ruby in D to see how  
it  
could stack up with using C as the foundation of Ruby.

For all you CS, or thesis looking students, this would look like  
something  
of at least an academic interest.

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**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyd-ruby-in-d/105517/2 "2007-05-30T19:39:05Z")

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Yeah!! seems like a great idea. Actually there’s no such thing.  
I’ve been programming on D since a year ago. Never heard too much about  
Ruby-D integration.

2007/5/30, jzakiya [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> could stack up with using C as the foundation of Ruby.
> 
> For all you CS, or thesis looking students, this would look like  
> something  
> of at least an academic interest.

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**Author:** ![jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@jzakiya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jzakiya)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubyd-ruby-in-d/105517/3 "2007-05-30T19:43:06Z")

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Since D is supposed to be link compatible with C, perhaps it would be  
trivial to adapt the existing C binding? That’d be sweet…