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We wanted to use Ractors in our latest Ruby project (which is Rust based using rb-sys/magnus for some parts), but since our users use Google Protobuf inside the code that may run in Ractors, we could not because the library is not Ractor safe[0] (and it's unreasonable for us to ask our users to not be able to use the official Protobuf library).

0 - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/19321

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I have found, in general, Google's ruby libraries to be non-idiomatic (instance checking optional Proc arguments instead of sending #call messages to the object) at best and at worst fundamentally incompatible (GRPCs pre-fork madness).

If somehow the broader ruby ecosystem made a concerted effort to become ractor safe I think google's ruby team would still hold the entire project back for years.

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