Why I'm stopping work on Reia

Some of you may have seen Elixir, a Ruby-inspired language for the Erlang VM, created by
José Valim. Whenever I see posts on HN or proggit about Elixir, I check out the comments, and almost every time someone asks about Reia, specifically how the two languages compare.

Reia and Elixir are extremely similar. If you check out their respective codebases, there's an almost bizarro world similarity between them. The project layout is almost identical, as is the build process and associated scripts to drive various parts of the language like the compiler and REPL. My impression of the code after looking over it was we were using largely the same mechanisms, and where they differed, José's solutions were something I had been thinking of changing, or something entirely new I hadn't thought of which seemed pretty cool.

At this point, in all respects Elixir is farther along than Reia and a better implementation. I think it's pretty bad to have two competing niche languages with nearly identical features.

So I'll be discontinuing work on Reia. The codebase and the web site will remain up on Github for however long Github wants to host them. Celluloid is Reia's spiritual successor. The main feature I always wanted out of Reia was a concurrent object system, and Celluloid implements that on top of Ruby.