Rubinius

Rubinius
Developer(s)	Evan Phoenix, Brian Shirai
Stable release	5.0 / May 16, 2020; 4 years 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	rubinius.com

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]

References

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