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>If you were doing the rewrite for a more modern language to attract more contributors, it might be worth it. Can you explain how a relatively less mature and
by rubyfan 10y ago
>If you were doing the rewrite for a more modern language to attract more contributors, it might be worth it.
Can you explain how a relatively less mature and less widely adopted "modern" language is going bring more contributors to MRI?
- yazaddaruvala 10y agoHere is a good starting point for the discussion about, Rust increasing contributors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11156478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11156478
- rubyfan 10y agoThis is both anecdotal on observations and subjective on the assertion that rust is better than C for MRI. Also rust adoption is yet to bear out and speculation at best that rust would bring more contributors. A good comparison point might be Rubinius or JRuby to see what a non-C approach does for contribution.