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Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler

by eutropia on 12/30/24, 10:58 PM with 19 comments

• by trevorhinesley on 12/31/24, 1:36 AM

  DragonRuby is incredible and the community is wildly supportive. Love that this is getting traction on HN. Ruby is really having a renaissance.

• by Malp on 12/31/24, 1:59 PM

  Awesome to see the progress made by Alex, highly recommend watching the linked talk for people interested in any of Ruby, (AoT) compilers, and MLIR (which I haven't seen used too much outside of the ML space, personally)

• by Alifatisk on 12/31/24, 12:03 PM

  Fascinating, does the project aspire to become compatible with MRI Ruby? Also how many active Ruby implementations do we have so far?

  Edit: Found this, https://github.com/codicoscepticos/ruby-implementations?tab=...

• by mapcars on 12/31/24, 1:37 AM

  I'm curious if Crystal lang is not fit enough for the main task?

• by revskill on 12/31/24, 5:44 AM

  Ruby is great as the first language.

  Productive as an engineer.

  Expressive as a linguist.

  Elegant as an artist.

  Magic as a blackbox.

  Succinct as math.