# What’s the Status, Kenneth? - Rubinius
Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language. The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++. The bytecode compiler is written in pure Ruby. The vast majority of the core library is also written in Ruby, with some supporting primitives that interact with the VM directly.
Author: Less Than Three. <3. http://less.thanthree.com

1.2.3

## What’s the Status, Kenneth?

Shane Becker 05 July 2011

I’m pretty sure it started like this.

> “Hello, Evan dear.” — Evan’s Grandma Betty

> “Grandma Betty!” — Evan

> “You know, I was thinking about your little Rubinius thingy while I was gardening today. How’s it doing?” — Evan’s Grandma Betty

> “Oh, Grandma Betty, that’s so sweet of you to think of me and it. It’s coming along still, of course.” — Evan

> “That’s good to hear. I was specifically wondering how the 1.9 support is looking.” — Evan’s Grandma Betty

> “Grandma Betty! You do always love the Latest and Greatest™, don’t you? Well, let’s see. I’d say that 1.9 support comes down to 7 main areas: Encoding, String, Regex, Symbol, IO, Argument Processing, Windows Support. Each has varying degrees of progress.” — Evan

> “OK. I wish that there was some way for me to keep more up to date on these happenings without needing to calling you. When I call you, I want to hear about that wife and baby of yours.” — Evan’s Grandma Betty

> “You got it, Grandma Betty. I’ll get my Top Nerds™ on the case.” — Evan

> [sometime later]

> “Alright, Grandma Betty. We made the Rubinius Status Board™ especially just for you. It’s status.rubini.us” — Evan

That conversation may or may not be completely fictionalized. There is one thing that is most emphatically true: Rubinius has a Status Board™ now. If you are ever curious how progress is going on things, go check out status.rubini.us. Tell your friends.

XOXO RBX.