Hers’s an outstanding, very detailed article on where Ruby VM’s are going in 2010 as their development accelerates and makes the language much more broadly available, by Ilya Grigorik at Igvita.com. He calls it a renaissance, and I don’t think I’d disagree. A nice “here’s where we are now” review of eight different Ruby VM’s: MRI, JRuby, MacRuby, MagLev, Ruby Enterprise Edition, IronRuby, Rubinius, and BlueRuby. As popular as it has become in the last few years we could really be on the cusp of a period of accelerating popularity for Ruby, and I think that Grigorik’s excellent overview of Ruby VMs is timely and pertinent.
Ruby VM’s in 2010
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