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Ruby 2.1.2 is released
- stanislavb 12y agoThat's really good news. I hope the different GC issues that required tuning and patching of 2.1.1 have been fixed.
- excid3 12y agoReadline definitely got fixed so you no longer have to apply patches to get it to compile.
- jrnkntl 12y agoFYI this was released 10 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7718581
- stanislavb 12y agoGood point! I though I've checked ruby-lang last 10 days...
- Pacabel 12y agoIs there anything particularly notable about this release? The release notes make it sound quite minor, with a small handful of bug fixes.
- chrisseaton 12y agoThese point releases are what the patch (-pNNN) versions used to be, so they are minor.
- e79 12y agoThere are some GC bug fixes that address some edge cases.
- timr 12y agoIt's more than just an edge case -- you're very likely to encounter the bugs that were fixed if you allocate large objects in a rails request handler. You should upgrade.
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- VeejayRampay 12y agoJust so that I understand, what is so funny about that website? If I read those graphs correctly, it seems that each new release is indeed faster than the previous one, as one would expect... Am I missing something?
- ant_sz 12y agoI don't understand you too. I was not making fun of the speed of ruby at all! Indeed just because it's becoming faster and faster I was quite happy. I just can't wait to see how faster the new version....
- VeejayRampay 12y agoSorry if I misunderstood, the "LOL" made it sound like you were poking at the lack of speed. My bad then.
- ant_sz 12y agonot your fault. it seems I did not use the word right... :p
- wbond 12y agoWhile I imagine that most Windows Ruby users already know this, I found it surprising that there still has not been an installer for Ruby 2.1 released for Windows. It appears there is at least one test failing on Windows that no one has had the time to fix. Considering that we are almost half way to the 2.2 release date (Dec 2014), it seems like Windows support may end up becoming a second-class citizen.
- venus 12y agoI'd say Windows has been a second class citizen for a long time for any of the unix-centric open source languages. Ruby, Python, even node - you're fighting an uphill battle trying to do anything on Windows. I'm sort of amazed they've made it run at all, the systems are so different. I'd advise anyone trying to run any of these systems on Windows to use a linux VM.
- toyg 12y ago>Ruby, Python, even node Nope: Windows support in Python is good and well-maintained, afaik. It boils down to attention for neophytes, really, and applications in education... a field where Python has much more mindshare than Ruby or node (IMHO).
- wbond 12y agoI concur. I've found Windows support in the Python community to be pretty good. The Ruby community seems to have more of a focus on posix platforms.