One Year of Topaz¶

Posted: April 10, 2013

It slipped by so quickly I didn’t even notice at the time, but April 7th wasthe one year anniversary of me working on Topaz. Or at least, of thedevelopment work. In reality I’d spent weeks (maybe even months) studying Ruby,learning its quirks, and reading MRI, Rubinius, and JRuby source code toprepare myself.

A year went by very quickly; before long other contributors were helping out,and we were starting to run more and more real Ruby code. Finally we were ableto start running useful benchmarks, and then (more importantly) to startrunningRubySpec, that was a big milestone.

Finally, in February, we open sourced Topaz, and the response from thecommunity has been incredible. So many of you have contributed pull requests,filed bugs, and given your feedback on all aspects of Topaz. It’s been amazingto watch.

With your help we now pass (at the time of writing) 3874 examples, and 10356expectations from RubySpec. And we’re passing more every single day.

If you’re interested, I’d like to encourage you toget involved, it’s always a great time.

The last year has been amazing, but I look forward to the next year even more,with your help we’re going to make Topaz pass more specs and run more Rubycode, faster.

Don’t forget you can always download anightly build and try Topaz out..

And if you’re looking for some fun, grab a copy ofthe repository and rungitlog--reverse-p – it’s fascinating to watch Topaz come to life.