Alternative Ruby implementation
Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 "Blue Book" design, Rubinius seeks to
"provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."
Goals.
Rubinius follows in the Lisp and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.
It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.
Sponsorship.
From 2007 to 2013, Engine Yard funded one full-time engineer to work exclusively on Rubinius. Evan Phoenix now works at HashiCorp.
PowerPC64 support.
Since version 2.4.0, support on PowerPC64 is enabled.
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