TruffleRuby

(chrisseaton.com)

106 points | by tosh 3 days ago

4 comments

  • semiquaver 5 hours ago
    Spoke to Chris in person at a conference shortly before he died. What a tragic loss. Rest in peace.
  • jwilliams 43 minutes ago
    GraalVM is genuinely great -- Native Image and the polyglot story are impressive.

    I was put off by the earlier licensing - it was confusing, which wasn't great in a license. The GraalVM Free Terms and Conditions "GFTC" now seems better (curious if people agree?), but I wonder if it came too late.

    The decoupling from Java SE was good in many ways, but it also made the future a little less clear too.

  • drzaiusx11 3 hours ago
    I've used JRuby with some success in production fairly recently to bridge two codebases, one previously in MRI Ruby and another in Java. It honestly worked well, but I always wondered about TruffleRuby and how it would have played out if I had chosen that runtime instead. I may still give truffle a go, but it's on the back burner for now.

    Anyone have personal experience with all both runtimes and which jvm interop works better? I kinda wish both had unified their interop APIs better, especially given they used to coexist in the same repo for a time...

    • thibaut_barrere 42 minutes ago
      I maintain a JRuby-based app. I looked into TruffleRuby a number of times but faced issues each time on that code base, so I could not get to the point where I was able to compare anything. YMMV!
  • claudiug 6 hours ago
    rest in peace Chris Seaton
    • ch4s3 6 hours ago
      Yeah, he was such a great guy. I hope his family is doing well.