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anemicon mruby

I've been waiting this for a long time. There's also TinyRB (http://code.macournoyer.com/tinyrb/) but it's too small subset of ruby to be useful and seems abandoned.

But my first impressions are not very positive (stripped x86_64 executables with -Os):

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 708480 Apr 20 11:27 mrbc
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 713056 Apr 20 11:27 mruby
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 712128 Apr 20 11:27 mrubysample

compared to lua-5.2.0:

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 147864 Apr 20 11:28 lua
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group  99168 Apr 20 11:28 luac

I'm not a big fan of lua as a language but it has been the only option to do scripting on small embedded systems. I've manged to compile size-optimized version of lua on arm to the size of about 80kb but mruby just might be too big for my embedded usage.

anemicon The Asus MacBook Air, sort of

I was wondering the same thing.

To give my opinion on the matter I like the 13" Zenbook's 1600x900 resolution better than MacBook Air's 1440x900. The 13" Macbook Pro has 1280x800 which is useless to me.

When running Visual Studio or Eclipse I definitely like the extra 160 pixels to have the sidebar wider without sacrificing space from the editor.