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TruffleRuby

by tosh on 3/28/2026, 6:39:39 PM

https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/

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by: semiquaver

Spoke to Chris in person at a conference shortly before he died. What a tragic loss. Rest in peace.

4/1/2026, 1:35:09 AM


by: pvsukale3

I really enjoyed reading Chris&#x27;s deep dives on Ruby internals.<p>This one to be specific.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisseaton.com&#x2F;truffleruby&#x2F;rubykaigi21&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrisseaton.com&#x2F;truffleruby&#x2F;rubykaigi21&#x2F;</a><p>Rest in peace.

4/1/2026, 8:37:13 AM


by: drzaiusx11

I&#x27;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&#x27;s on the back burner for now.<p>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...

4/1/2026, 4:11:56 AM


by: jwilliams

GraalVM is genuinely great -- Native Image and the polyglot story are impressive.<p>I was put off by the earlier licensing - it was confusing, which wasn&#x27;t great in a license. The GraalVM Free Terms and Conditions &quot;GFTC&quot; now seems better (curious if people agree?), but I wonder if it came too late.<p>The decoupling from Java SE was good in many ways, but it also made the future a little less clear too.

4/1/2026, 6:42:14 AM


by: claudiug

rest in peace Chris Seaton

4/1/2026, 1:20:19 AM