rubyspeed

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ruby compiler

SHOW HN2020

153points
109comments
#390of 3,028 in 2020
Top 13%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.

Idea: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interest in trying it for computationally heavy parts of Rails codebases

    From 1 comment
    • Looks great - but since you mention you're inspired by Sorbet, why not use their type annotations instead of rolling your own with Rubyspeed::T? (I don't know too much about C,…
      d3nj4l on HN

Objections

  • Ruby should stay slow and expressive; use faster hardware instead

    From 1 comment
    • Imagine going all in on a Ruby project with this specialized library that literally changes the way you write Ruby and still thinking that's a good idea. Keep Ruby as it is -…
      jonny383 on HN
  • Rails performance and bloat overhead

    From 2 comments
    • The obvious performance and bloat overhead with RoR aside, I have yet to see a framework and ecosystem that lets you have a programmable web application up and running with…
      fareesh on HN
    • > The obvious performance and bloat overhead with RoR aside. Does the bloat matter in the end tho? You can build a million dollar business on a single $20 / month DigitalOcean…
      nickjj on HN
  • Big enterprises should not chase new languages

    From 1 comment
    • The amount of new languages and "the absolute best framework" makes me think that big enterprises should never leave Java. Fancy project written on a newest tech is legacy before…
      hasa on HN

Requests

  • Use Sorbet type annotations instead of custom Rubyspeed::T

    From 1 comment
    • Looks great - but since you mention you're inspired by Sorbet, why not use their type annotations instead of rolling your own with Rubyspeed::T? (I don't know too much about C,…
      d3nj4l on HN

Questions

  • How does this compare to Crystal?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Crystal

    From 2 comments
    • For practical use, how does this compare to crystal?
      moonchild on HN
    • Nice effort, but I think contributing to Crystal would be better spent.
      pjmlp on HN
  • Sorbet

    From 1 comment
    • Looks great - but since you mention you're inspired by Sorbet, why not use their type annotations instead of rolling your own with Rubyspeed::T? (I don't know too much about C,…
      d3nj4l on HN

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