Java 21 has me anticipating the next JRuby release because of Virtual Threads. Charles Nutter gave a talk about JRuby in August where he showed a demo of the impact on Ruby fibers and it’s pretty significant.
There’s a lot that I really like about the JVM and it’s tooling, I just don’t like writing Java code anymore. JRuby kinda gives the best of both worlds.
Here’s the talk. Virtual thread demo is around the 45 minute mark.