Talk:Mirah (programming language)

Mirah was Duby, which has been covered and is being used by real users today

The page was nominated for deletion due to lack of notability. However, this may simply be because the language has had a name change recently. It used to be called Duby, and there are more references available online to that name than to "Mirah". Here are a few to start, a mix of blogs and articles:

It's being used by a few projects already, including:

http://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/tree/master/plugins/
http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby/source/browse/appengine-rack/src/com/google/appengine/jruby/rack.duby (the main servlet logic for the JRuby tools for Google AppEngine)

I have presented it at several conferences, some of which have videos online. One such presentation from RubyConf 2009 is listed on the http://mirah.org front page.

The current disambiguation page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duby also references a non-existent page for Duby, so someone else felt it important to at least do that much.

It may be interesting to point out that "joke" programming languages that have literally zero users (like [1]) have had pages on Wikipedia for some time. Mirah is actually useful and being used :)

I'm not trying to argue that Mirah is *especially* notable, but with an active userbase, production apps, third-party bloggers, and more presentations, articles, and potentially a book in the making, it seems like it's at least notable *enough* to be included on Wikipedia. Is there more information I can provide? Headius (talk) 04:06, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]