Ruby Next: A Transpiler for Ruby
I&#x27;ve had to deal with Ruby for the last 2 years, and one of the main problem is the gem ecosystem. The language and standard libraries are pretty narrow, unless you add Rails (which adds a new variety of breaking upgrade headaches).<p>Thus, there&#x27;s always the desire to use third-party gems to achieve pretty basic stuff (localization, decent networking&#x2F;REST, database drivers, etc). These then tend to go out of date. It&#x27;s pretty common to find well-used gems that haven&#x27;t been updated in 5, even 10 years. This puts the developer in a tough spot - reinvent the gem&#x2F;wheel? Or be forced to stay on an EOL version of Ruby?