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Could you summarize what benefits moving to Rubinius would buy Ruby developers? I'm an outsider looking in, so while I know what the MRI and Rubinius are, I do

Could you summarize what benefits moving to Rubinius would buy Ruby developers? I'm an outsider looking in, so while I know what the MRI and Rubinius are, I don't know why I'd prefer to use Rubinius instead.

compay 15y ago
* Written mostly in Ruby * No GIL * JIT * Better garbage collector * Better debugging tools Unfortunately, Rubinius is not yet complete, so it's not a suitable MRI replacement for now.
- chollida1 15y ago
  Thanks very much! Without the GIL what does that mean for extensions written in C. Would they need to be rewritten?
  - compay 15y ago
    Here's Evan Phoenix's answer from a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265163 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265163