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holydude on June 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How is Ruby different in Japan?

Hopefully! The problem with ruby is it's just fine as in good enough but not better or more compelling than X or Y. I hope Crystal changes this or there will be some breakthrough in the mri.

ZenoArrow on June 18, 2017 | [–]

I expect a second wave is most likely to come if TruffleRuby takes off (perhaps when it has full support for Rails).

https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/benchmarking-a-go-a...

cutler on June 19, 2017 | | [–]

.... and Substrate VM. JRuby has also made great strides recently.

holydude on June 19, 2017 | | | [–]

But the question is when that will be available? It might be too late.

ksec on June 19, 2017 | [–]

There is a new VM with Method JIT coming to MRI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14576077

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