Software:Rubinius

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Short description: Alternative Ruby implementation
Rubinius
Developer(s)Evan Phoenix, Brian Shirai
Stable release
5.0 / May 16, 2020; 3 years ago (2020-05-16)[1]
Written inC++ and Ruby
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeRuby programming language compiler
LicenseMozilla Public License
Websiterubini.us

Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,[2] Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."[3]

Goals

Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.[4]

It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.

Sponsorship

From 2007 to 2013, Engine Yard funded one full-time engineer to work exclusively on Rubinius.[5] Evan Phoenix now works at HashiCorp.[6][7]

PowerPC64 support

Since version 2.4.0, support on PowerPC64 is enabled.[8]

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