Written in C++ and Ruby | Operating system | |
Developer(s) Evan Phoenix, Brian Shirai Stable release 3.29 / April 29, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-04-29) Repository github.com/rubinius/rubinius Type Ruby programming language compiler | ||
Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design, Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."
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Goals
Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.
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. Evan Phoenix is now CEO of Vektra.
References
Rubinius Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA