Rubinius

Rubinius
Developer(s)	Evan Phoenix, Brian Shirai
Stable release	5.0 / May 16, 2020; 15 months ago
Repository	github.com/rubinius/rubinius ;
Written in	C++ and Ruby
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	Ruby programming language compiler
License	Mozilla Public License
Website	rubini.us

Rubinius was an alternative Ruby implementation created by . Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,^[2] Rubinius sought 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]

References[]

^ "Releases - rubinius/rubinius". Retrieved 17 May 2020 – via GitHub.
^ Goldberg, Adele; Robson, Dave (1983). Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation. ISBN 0-201-11371-6.
^ "Rubinius README". Rubinius Project. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
^ Nutter, Charles (2008-04-27). "Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls". Retrieved 2009-02-22. Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible.
^ https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/the-future-of-rubinius
^ "Vektra Joins HashiCorp". www.hashicorp.com. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
^ http://www.hashicorp.com/
^ Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa, Vitor de Lima, Leonardo Bianconi (2014). "Release 2.4.0". Retrieved 2020-01-06.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)