Lightstorm: Minimalistic Ruby Compiler

by eutropia on 12/30/2024, 10:58:26 PM with 19 comments

  • by trevorhinesley on 12/31/2024, 1:36:36 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 12/31/2024, 1:59:22 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 12/31/2024, 12:03:10 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 12/31/2024, 1:37:00 AM

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

  • by revskill on 12/31/2024, 5:44:42 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.