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They should sponsor also the proper JIT in Ruby, will improve the speed drastically. Not the current generation of C code then compiling it with GCC, this is a
by xvilka 7y ago
They should sponsor also the proper JIT in Ruby, will improve the speed drastically. Not the current generation of C code then compiling it with GCC, this is a joke.
- steveklabnik 7y agoI'm not sure who is working on JIT stuff in Ruby, but GitHub does employ people to work on Ruby itself, notably Aaron Patterson.
- jashmatthews 7y agoIt's very easy to criticize and very hard to do better within the same constraints. Vladimir Makarov from the GCC team built the prototype. This was not the result of inexperience but a pragmatic choice. As a side note, JRuby has had a production ready JIT since 2015.
- save_ferris 7y agoHow I dream of more serious sponsorship in the ruby community. I think people underestimate how much python shops are suffering right now over the V2 to V3 transition. I recently turned down a gig that was basically just going to be upgrading python services for the next several months. I've personally preferred much of ruby's tooling and package management to Python's, and I've always hoped that bigger money would come into the community. That said, Ruby has done incredible, not knocking the accomplishments of the community in any way.
- cutler 7y agoWhat happened to IBM? A few years ago they were all in on supporting Ruby. Next I heard they were betting the company on Swift.
- save_ferris 7y agoNo idea, but nothing really planned out as far as I’m aware. It’s great to see companies like Github, Stripe and Shopify make major contributions to the community, but having a relationship like Google and Guido have would’ve elevated the community to another level.
- petepete 7y agoIs what IBM thinks really relevant these days?