I think you're misunderstanding me. I am not selling you anything. I make no money off this. I am not invested in whether you personally choose to move forward

I think you're misunderstanding me. I am not selling you anything. I make no money off this. I am not invested in whether you personally choose to move forward or not. My point is different. Your original statement basically equates quality with authority: you believe a project is qualitatively good if and only if it's officially blessed by an authority you trust. And that belief is fine. Most people either aren't able to, or don't care enough to, verify quality themselves, so we defer to trusted authorities. Nothing wrong with that approach in general. The thing I'm trying to tell you though, is that in case of MRI, there have been multiple past cases when the lack of official authority blessing did not in fact mean a lack of quality. This isn't hypothetical: there's a proven track record. My own track record is proven as well. What is in it for you? Well, reduced memory usage, improved performance, faster and lower-hassle installation and security patching! There is always a risk, yes. But all I'm trying to say is that the equation "lack of authority blessing == lack of quality" is proven not to be true for a Ruby project such as this. Whether you want to take the risk of trying it out, that's entirely up to you.