Winding Down Artichoke Ruby

hyperbo.la

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I did some digging into Artichokes sourcecode to get inspiration for making a Ruby like language in Rust. But I found the codebase a bit complicated and ended up taking more inspiration from mruby instead. It's deeply segmented into different crates like many Rust projects are.

> OpenAI is demanding

Just me, or are OpenAI and Anthropic basically hiring all the smart developers, like the Google of old? If you're making something like this, very likely that you're working for either OAI or Anthropic.

This makes the acquihires of Bun and Astral make a lot more sense. A Rust / Zig company attracts a special kind of crowd, and dev tools are notoriously hard to sell, so any exit is a good exit for them. I wouldn't be surprised if Zed or maybe Tigerbeetle were next (though the latter has a much clearer pathway to true commercial success).

The only implementation which is going head on with MRI is JRuby. I've heard from JRuby implementers that keeping the runtime compatible with MRI is an uphill battle. I don't know if AI can help this cause.

TruffleRuby is pretty close too, if anything it’s even a bit more compatible because it’s able to run native extensions.

Also keeping compatible with MRI have been made significantly easier by Prism, the new parser that is shared by all implementations.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought Prism is still in beta. Maybe I'm wrong

Nope. It’s been the default MRI parser for a couple years now.

Very sad news, but it lasted for way longer than I expected. Well done!

it's cool it lasted so long

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