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> Rust as a programming language community has a great deal of enthusiasm behind it. This could translate to more enthusiasm for YJIT and for Ruby as well.

It's refreshing to see a project explicitly call this out as a benefit for adopting Rust. Love it or hate it, the RIIR (Rewrite It In Rust) crowd certainly has a lot of momentum behind it.

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Yes! Love the acronym, too.

> it's refreshing to see a project explicitly call this out as a benefit for adopting Rust

It seems to be a proposal. The proposal was made by a user who was registered on 09/27/2021.

The text you quoted was included on his proposal. The project itself is not explicitly call that one out.

> The proposal was made by a user who was registered on 09/27/2021.

maximecb is the lead of YJIT project in Shopify.

For context, YJIT was developed at Shopify, based Maxime's thesis (see lazy basic block versioning). It has been merged into Ruby core, and she now has commit rights to Ruby.

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